Atlantic Studios has today confirmed that the gripping and globally relevant AI documentary “Chasing Utopia” will be released in select cinemas across the UK from May 15.
The film sees best-selling author and former chief business officer to Google Mo Gawdat setting out to answer questions we should all be asking: what does life alongside AI truly look like, how can it best benefit us, what specific threats does it pose to our l lives, and how do we ensure it doesn’t cost us everything?
As Mo Gawdat says in the film “‘This is the absolute most important topic in your entire lifetime.”
Directed by BAFTA winning Alex Holmes (House of Saddam, Dunkirk and Maiden) and Lina Zilinskaite, and produced by BAFTA winning Anthony Geffen (Hawking: Can you Hear me? The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest), the film follows Mo’s journey from Shanghai to Bhutan, to New York, Toronto and London to discover the answers while there is still time. He engages with the leading players whose insight can help us shape our future, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.
AI already touches almost everybody’s lives each and every day, whether through active use or indirectly through infrastructure. Yet the ramification of these technologies is poorly understood, provision for its management and use incoherent and inadequate. AI’s extraordinary pace of evolution outpaces governments, regulators and even public debate.
This is the Inconvenient Truth of AI – Chasing Utopia is the one film everyone affected by AI must see.
Mo Gawdat is a best-selling author of Scary Smart and Solve for Happy, a podcaster to millions, and former chief business officer to Google X. As an industry insider, he has first-hand experience of the power and perils of AI. After a life changing event, Mo has made it his life’s mission to ensure the public have the knowledge and skills to harness AI’s power for good.
In this sobering film, Mo Gawdat offers us what might be the only way forwards to save humanity – while we still can.
