The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” showing May 1-7 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres.

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.

A vital exploration of the revolutionary technology and the people behind it — from the major figures fast-tracking its development to the ones warning us about its dangers — the film, directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, is at once a thrilling primer, a call to attention, and an intimate personal story about what it means to look toward an uncertain future.

In “The AI Doc”, Roher embarks on a winding odyssey to understand this unwieldy, game-changing development, interviewing a range of AI skeptics and champions, pessimists and optimists, realists and major power players — including CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Out of that deep dive emerges a tangle of momentous questions: Is humanity doomed? Are we living during the most promising time in human history or on the precipice of an age of extinction? What will become of us?

“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres May 1-7. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 1, 2, 3 and 4 at 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5 and 6 at 3:30 and 7:00 p.m.; and Thursday, May 7 at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.