Will AI save humanity or destroy us all?
We are giving away free tickets to subscribers for our pre-release screening and live panel discussion of "THE AI DOC: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"
"Success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. But it could also be the last – unless we learn how to avoid the risks".
This quote is from famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, but it almost perfectly sums up the new documentary: THE AI DOC: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. It has been described as the most urgent movie of our time.
We will be hosting an exclusive pre-release screening of the upcoming AI documentary at New York University on Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 pm. And we are giving away free tickets to subscribers of this newsletter! Yes, that’s you!
Get a sneak preview of what is likely going to be the most talked about documentary of the year then stick around for a conversation we are hosting with the Academy Award winning producer, Jonathan Wang, and NYT # Bestselling author of The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt. We promise to keep things spicy!
From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.
You can watch the trailer here (we watched the movie ourselves and it’s a bit terrifying):
As we mentioned above, the screening will be followed immediately by a panel discussion: The Center for Conflict and Cooperation’s Co-Directors (Jay Van Bavel and Anni Sternisko), will be joined by Jonathan Wang (Academy Award-winning producer) and Jonathan Haidt (NYU Professor and Author of The Anxious Generation).
Much of today’s conversation focuses on how A.I. will shape the future. We will take a step back and ask a different question: How can we guide A.I. toward a future we want, and how do we keep that future human? We have been studying AI in our lab for the past few years and the technology is rapidly developing. Now is the time to have a conversation about what we as individuals and society want from AI.
We will also be taking questions for the audience, so this is a chance for you to be part of the conversation.
If you want to join us, please Register by Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
Paid subscribers: Claim your free ticket here.
Free subscribers: Enter the lottery for a chance to win one of a limited number of tickets here. We will try to give tickets to as many people as possible.
This screening is the first in a broader series of events we’ll be opening up to paid newsletter subscribers, including online courses led by Jay and Dom, so keep your eyes peeled for more to come.
If you can’t make it to our screening, go catch it at your local movie theater. THE AI DOC will be released in U.S. theaters on March 27th. The initial reviews are excellent so we encourage everyone to check it out.
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