Mar 28, 2026 9:15am PT

What ‘The AI Doc’ Filmmakers Want Everyone to Know About AI: ‘There Probably Isn’t an Off Switch’

Charlie Tyrell, Ted Tremper

Courtesy of Focus Features

When the filmmakers behind “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” set out to investigate the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, they couldn’t predict what the next two-and-a-half years would have in store.

The Focus Features documentary, in theaters now, explores the intersection of AI development and its impact on humanity from a personal perspective. When co-directors Daniel Roher (an Academy Award winner for 2022’s “Navalny”) and Charlie Tyrell (“Broken Orchestra”) learned they would both become fathers in early 2024, they anchored the film around one question: What kind of world will our children inherit?