Sundance documentary "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" examines the promises and perils of artificial intelligence through the anxieties of director Daniel Roher, who is expecting his first child. The film gathers a broad spectrum of voices - from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and machine‑learning pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Ilya Sutskever and Shane Legg, to doomsday advocates Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, Ajeya Cotra and Eli Yudkowsky, and optimistic futurists Peter Diamandis, Guillaume Verdon, Peter Lee and Daniela Amodei. It also features commentators on the societal and environmental impact of AI such as journalist Karen Hao, Liv Boeree and computational linguist Emily M. Bender. The documentary juxtaposes concerns that advanced AI could threaten humanity with visions that it could cure disease, climate change and other global crises, while also highlighting the energy demands of data centers that affect communities in the American West.

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