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

Name: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
Director: Daniel Roher
Genre: Documentary
Released: Mar 27, 2026
Cast: Sam Altman, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Emily M. Bender, Yoshua Bengio

Focus Features

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for language.
1h 43m
- 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 Apr 03, 2026 03:32 PM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$646,020
Total US & Canada:
$870,475
Total Worldwide:
$870,475

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Director & Top Cast

Daniel Roher
Director

Charlie Tyrell
Director

Sam Altman
Self - CEO, OpenAI

Daniela Amodei
Self - President & Co-Founder, Anthropic

Dario Amodei
Self - CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic

Emily M. Bender
Self - Linguistics Professor, University of Washington

Yoshua Bengio

Self - Turing Award Co-Winner

Liv Boeree

Self - Game Theory Expert

Ajeya Cotra

Self - AI Risk Advisor

Peter Diamandis

Self - Founder & Chair, XPRIZE and Singularity University

Randima Fernando

Self - Former Production Manager, NVIDIA, Self - Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

Timnit Gebru

Self - Founder and ED, DAIR

Karen Hao

Self - AI Reporter

Yuval Noah Harari

Self - Historian & Author

David Evan Harris

Self - Chancellor's Public Scholar, UC Berkeley

Tristan Harris

Self - Co-Founder, Center for Humane Technology

Demis Hassabis

Self - CEO & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind

Dan Hendrycks

Self - Executive Director, Center for AI Safety

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

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Storyline

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

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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.