The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026)

The AI Doc tries to interview everybody, and that’s both its strength and its limit. Filmmaker Daniel Roher has a baby on the way and wants to know what kind of world the kid is inheriting, so he sits down with a huge lineup that includes Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio, Timnit Gebru and Yuval Noah Harari, some of them building the technology and some of them sounding alarms about it. With that many voices in 104 minutes, nobody gets to go deep, and you’ll leave with more questions than answers. That might be the point. What makes it work is Roher himself. He’s openly nervous, and he frames the whole debate through a soon-to-be dad trying to decide whether to panic, which shrinks a giant topic down to a human size. Critics called it balanced, and it never tells you what to think. A 6.8 because it’s a sharp, humane survey that stays a survey. $298 says you call yourself an apocaloptimist out loud before the week is over and have to explain it twice.

What works: Roher’s personal angle as an anxious father-to-be makes a huge, abstract subject feel human, and the film gives both hope and fear a fair hearing.

What doesn’t: With so many interviewees packed in, it skims across big ideas instead of digging into any of them.

Who it’s for: Anyone who has wondered where AI is headed and wants a balanced starting point rather than a sermon.