Interview With "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" Co-Director Daniel Roher

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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"The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell. It is produced by the Academy Award-winning teams behind "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang) and "Navalny" (Shane Boris and Diane Becker). The film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and received positive reviews for the questions it asked (and answered) about the threat or uses for good in the world about AI, Roher's personal journey of becoming a father while developing the documentary, its editing, and handcrafted animation and artwork made by humans. Roher was kind enough to be our first fully produced in-studio interview and spent a good forty minutes talking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is opening in theaters on March 27th from Focus Features. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:30.1	McGriddles, a new McDonald's breakfast.
0:32.6	So it's maple syrup infused.
0:34.7	It's sweet, then it's savoury, because the sausage, you know, and the cheese
0:38.3	and the egg. Oh, it's got the golden archie stamped on it too. Make that make sense.
0:42.6	It's hard to put into words, but...
0:44.3	Until 11am, subject to availability, fees apply to delivery orders while stocks last.
0:50.1	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the co-director for the AI doc or how I became an apocoponist, Daniel Rower.
0:59.3	Your fear of AI is the collapse of humanity.
1:03.2	Well, not the collapse, the abrupt extermination.
1:07.4	There's a difference.
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