The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist - Co-directors: Charlie Tyrell (Daniel Roher) & Producer Ted

From the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be (Daniel Roher) 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. Co-director Charlie Tyrell and Producer Ted Tremper join us for a spirited conversation on this inevitable technology that is the most hopeful and most fraught technology in the history of mankind.

About the filmmaker - Charlie Tyrell is a Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at major international festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and the Toronto International Film Festival. His films have been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vimeo Staff Picks, and the CBC. His debut feature, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, premiered at Sundance in 2026 and received a nationwide theatrical release from Focus Features. Previously, Tyrell directed the Academy Award–shortlisted My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes, winner of both a Canadian Screen Awards and a Cinema Eye Honors award. His follow-up film, Broken Orchestra, also premiered at Sundance. He later served as Director of Visual Segments on Amanda Mustard’s HBO documentary Great Photo, Lovely Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son and has taken an oath not to eat another hot dog until the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series.

About the filmmaker - Ted Tremper is a showrunner, director, and writer whose credits include the sequel to Borat, The Daily Show w/ Trevor Noah, Robert Smigel's FOX puppet show Let's Be Real, and I Love You America! w/ Sarah Silverman. He is also the co-creator of SHRINK on Peacock starring Tim Baltz, (Righteous Gemstones). In his spare time he makes bespoke fountain pens which he sells and donates the profits to far-left liberal charities hellbent on destroying America. - IMDb mini biography by: Ted Tremper