iHuman (2019)
November 15, 2019Release Date
iHuman (2019)
November 15, 2019Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently iHuman is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Amazon Video
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Max Tegmark
Self - Cosmologist
Hao Li
Himself
Ben Goertzel
Self - AI Researcher
Jurgen Schmidhuber
Self - AI Researcher
Philippa Kowarsky
Executive Producer
Ilya Sutskever
Self - AI Researcher
Michal Kosinski
Self - Psychologist
Helle Faber
Co-Producer
Christian Aune Falch
Co-Producer
Kara Swisher
Self - Journalist
Lee Fang
Self - Journalist
Tonje Hessen Schei
Director
Johan Rasmus Pram
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mari Ellefsæter
Producer
Jonathan Borge Lie
Producer
Geir Fjermestad Rolandsen
Assistant Editor
Media.
Details.
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iHuman is a documentary about artificial intelligence, social control and power. The film shows how this technology is changing our lives, our society and our future. Such experts as Ilya Sutskever and Jürgen Schmidhuber give interviews about AI and how it is developed and implemented. It also features the leading minds in the field Max Tegmark, Kara Swisher, Michal Kosinski, Stuart Russell, Ben Wizner, Hao Li, Ben Goertzel and Philip Alston. The documentary features its own character representing AI that develops through the film. This character has an abstract VFX form done by Theodor Groeneboom. The constant surveillance through phones, internet, systems in society and through surveillance cameras is discussed as a topic crucial for development of AI. The question is posed, if we already are governed by algorithms that are created by big tech corporations, governments and the military industry. It mentions Palantir Technologies and Cambridge Analytica.
The film premiered at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 23 November.