The Singularity (2012)
Will we survive our technology?
76 min
Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? Director Doug Wolens speaks with leading futurists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and philosophers who turn over the question like a Rubik’s Cube. Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to gain something greater? Or will we engineer our own demise? THE SINGULARITY is a comprehensive and insightful documentary film that examines technology’s accelerating rate, and deftly addresses the resulting moral questions.
- Release date
- November 1, 2012
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- David Chalmers as Self
- Richard A. Clarke as Self
- Aubrey de Grey as Self
- Alison Gopnik as Self
- Raymond Kurzweil as Self
- Bill McKibben as Self
- Peter Norvig as Self
- Leon Panetta as Self
- Christine Peterson as Self
- Eliezer Yudkowsky as Self
Crew
- Doug Wolens · Director
- Doug Wolens · Producer
- Mark Woloschuk · Cinematographer
- Doug Wolens · Editor