Director Charlie Tyrell, left, and producer Daniel Kwan at a screening of Focus Features’ The AI Doc: or How I Became An Apocaloptimist on March 23, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. | Eric Charbonneau/Focus Features via Getty Images In 1964, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted that computers would overtake human evolution.“Present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation,” he told the BBC. “They will start to think, and eventually, they will completely out-think their makers.”  Daniel Roher opens his new documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) with this cheerful prophecy. And in the hundred-some minutes that follow, he tries to make sense of a technology that, by his own admission, he does not understand — and a world that is rapidly being changed by it. Explaining that he conceives of AI as a “magic box floating in space,” he enlists the help of experts to provide him with a crash course in what, exactly, AI is .…