In 2023, around the same time that director Daniel Roher began working on a film about AI and the future of humanity, he and his wife Caroline found out that they were having a baby. Making a 90-minute film about a “huge, important, gargantuan” like AI had felt “almost impossible,” says Roher. But the birth of his family’s first child provided a way to ground the film. “People can relate to babies. People love babies!” Roher said on a Sundance Film Festival panel. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an