IHuman (film)

For other uses, see iHuman (disambiguation).

iHuman is a documentary about artificial intelligence, social control and power.^[1] 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.^[2] It also features people working in the field like Max Tegmark, Kara Swisher, Michal Kosinski, Stuart Russell, Ben Wizner, Hao Li, Ben Goertzel and Philip Alston.^[1] 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.

iHuman
Film poster
Directed by	Tonje Hessen Schei
Produced by	Sue Turley Philippa Kowarsky Annie Roney Jonathan Borge Lie Helle Faber Christian Aune Falch Torstein Parelius Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch Danielle Turkov
Production companies	Up North Film AS Made in Copenhagen
Release date	23 November 2019 (2019-11-23) (IDFA)
Country	Norway
Language	English

The film premiered at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 23 November.^[3][4]

See also

• Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
• Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
• Regulation of algorithms
• Social Credit System