By Charlie Tyrell
Publication Date: 2026-03-28 16:15:00
When the filmmakers behind The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist set out to examine the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, they couldn’t predict what the next two and a half years would bring.
The documentary Focus Features, now in theaters, examines the intersection between AI development and its impact on humanity from a personal perspective. When co-directors Daniel Roher (an Oscar winner for 2022’s “Navalny”) and Charlie Tyrell (“Broken Orchestra”) learned that they would both be fathers in early 2024, they made the film around one question: What kind of world will our children inherit?
To answer this question, producer Ted Tremper made more than 100 contacts, including sources within major AI labs, and conducted preliminary discussions that lasted up to 20 hours. Meanwhile, Roher and Tryell interviewed more than 40 AI experts on camera and created 3,300 pages of transcripts. Your planned production year…
