Tristan Harris

A new documentary film titled The AI Doc or How I Became an Apocaloptimist aims to explore what it describes as the most powerful technology humanity has ever created and what's at stake if we get it wrong.

Well, our audience just watched this documentary and before I introduce my guest, I wanted to ask a few of you for your initial reactions.

Claire?

Now what can I do?

Yeah, that's when I finished the film too, thinking, what can I do?

Yep.

All right, Adam.

I feel like it armed me with amazing information on both sides, the doomerism and the optimism.

But it also showed me that all these data scientists are just obsessed with intelligence as data.

And it kind of proved out to me what makes us special as humans, because they didn't talk anything about consciousness or embodied experience.

So I left feeling really excited about the future and what's possible, but also like so happy for how we're differentiated.

And I do feel less scared.

You do feel less scared.

Yeah, it'll be big, and it'll be gigantic.

They all said that, but I'm excited.

Okay, so the creator and co-director of the AI doc is Academy Award winner Daniel Rohr, and he appears as the interviewer in this film, and here's some of that.

Take a look.

What is artificial intelligence?

I know that must be annoying for you, that question, but I do think it's important.

Yeah.