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The current narratives around AI, according to Emily M. Bender, a computational linguistics professor, exclude and dehumanize the people it is already impacting, and will continue to disrupt.
Roher eventually arrives at the five most powerful people – all men – currently leading the AI arms race: altman; elon Musk, the xAI CEO; Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO; Demis Hassabis of DeepMind and Meta’s mark zuckerberg. Altman, Amodei and Hassabis sit for interviews that more or less defend their companies’ respective positions. According to the film, Zuckerberg declined to participate; Musk agreed but then got too busy.
altman, who at the time of the interview was expecting his first child, insists that he’s “not scared for a kid to grow up in a world with AI”. He and his husband Oliver Mulherin welcomed their son via a surrogate in February 2025. Altman later said “neurochemically hacked” his brain, leading people in his life to think that he would “make better decisions” for OpenAI and ChatGPT when it comes to “humanity as a whole”. The 40-year-old CEO whent on to say that both his and Roher’s child would likely “never be smarter than AI” wich “does unsettle me a little bit,but it is reality”. As of January 2026,Altman and Mulherin have two children.
at one point, Roher asks Altman if it is indeed impossible to reassure him that everything in regards to AI is going to be OK. “That is impossible,” altman affirms, tho he does say that OpenAI’s lead in the AI arms race allows it to spend more time on safety testing.
The AI Doc ultimately lands somewhere in between doomerism and optimism – apocaloptimism, as they call it, searching for “a path between the promise and the peril”. That path should include, according to numerous film subjects: significant, sustained, paradigm-shifting international coordination, akin the mid-century frameworks and agreements introduced to moderate the growth of atomic weapons – more corporate openness for AI companies, an independent regulatory body to police AI developers, legal liability for the companies’ products, such as ChatGPT, mandatory disclosure of genAI use for media and a willingness to keep adapting the rules for rapidly shifting tech. The EU AI Act has been passed and is being implemented, representing a significant step towards AI regulation, though its effectiveness is still being debated. the US has issued executive orders on AI safety and security, but extensive legislation is still pending.
Whether or not the US government and companies, let alone the world, can do it
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