In Tremper’s telling, the unsatisfactory nature of the CEOs’ appearance is deliberate: a way to show that even the people at the top have no plan. “It’s very important that the film doesn’t choose favorites in terms of which CEO we like because they’re all culpable to a different degree,” he says.
The AI Doc is a story of competition between rich, powerful companies and rival nations driving humanity towards an uncertain future. “The path we are on—it does not look good,” says Tremper. In the months since the film wrapped, AI models have been deployed in war zones to identify bombing targets, and the U.S. government retaliated against a leading AI company after it refused to remove red lines prohibiting the use of its technology for mass surveillance.
But the documentary is also a story of hope, inviting viewers to acknowledge the unpredictability of the future and take ownership. Since making the movie, Tremper has become the interim executive director of the Creators’ Coalition on AI, aimed at uniting the creative industry in the face of Big Tech. Roher recently canceled his ChatGPT subscription after OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon. And The AI Doc itself, which follows in the tradition of movies such as The Social Dilemma and An Inconvenient Truth, is an attempt at shifting course, three years in the making.
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