Chasing Utopia
Chasing Utopia is a feature documentary asking the question everyone should be asking: will AI be humanity's greatest achievement or its greatest downfall?Mo Gawdat spent two years travelling the world - from Shanghai to Riyadh, New York to London - to find out, engaging with the leading minds shaping our future including Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
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- Alex Holmes
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Chasing Utopia is a feature documentary asking the question everyone should be asking: will AI be humanity's greatest achievement or its greatest downfall? Mo Gawdat spent two years travelling the world - from Shanghai to Riyadh, New York to London - to find out, engaging with the leading minds shaping our future including Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The result is a film that might change the way you see everything
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- Release date
- May 15, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
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- English
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