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

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PG-13
Rated PG-13 for language.
1h 44m
- Animation
- Documentary

Release Date: Mar 27, 2026 | Moderate

A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity.

Releases

Original Release | Mar 27, 2026

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Box Office Results

Updated as of May 31, 2026 11:22 AM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$646,020
Total US & Canada:
$1,271,825
Total Worldwide:
$1,271,825

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Director & Top Cast

Daniel Roher
Director

Charlie Tyrell
Director

Daniel Roher
Self - Filmmaker

Deborah Raji
Self - Researcher, UC Berkeley

Ajeya Cotra
Self - AI Risk Advisor

David Evan Harris
Self - Chancellor's Public Scholar, UC Berkeley

Jason Matheny

Self - President and CEO, RAND

Aza Raskin

Self - Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology & Earth Species Project

Jeffrey Ladish

Self - Executive Director, Palisade Research

Tristan Harris

Self - Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

Dan Hendrycks

Self - Executive Director, Center for AI Safety

Sanmi Koyejo

Self - Asst. Prof. of Computer Science, Stanford

Randima Fernando

Self - Fmr Production Mgr., NVIDIA - Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

Connor Leahy

Self - Founder & CEO, Conjecture

Yoshua Bengio

Self - Turing Award Co-Winner, Université de Montréal & Mila

Ilya Sutskever

Self - Co-Founder & Former Chief Scientist, OpenAI (helped create ChatGPT)

Shane Legg

Self - Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind

Daniel Kokotajlo

Self - Former OpenAI Researcher (and whistleblower)

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

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A father to be races to understand the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, interviewing researchers, developers, and critics on both sides of the debate, trying to make sense of technology that is evolving faster than anyone can explain, before his child is born into a world already being shaped by it. — jstalmer

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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) explores artificial intelligence's existential risks and revolutionary potential through director Daniel Roher's personal lens as a father-to-be. Roher interviews leading AI experts to grasp the technology's rapid rise, balancing doomsday fears with optimistic breakthroughs in climate, medicine, and human limits.