Do You Trust This Computer

Name: Do You Trust This Computer
Director: Chris Paine
Released: 2018

Chris Paine 2018

Directed by Chris Paine (Who Killed The Electric Car?) and executive produced by Chris Paine and Tiffany Asakawa, Do You Trust This Computer? examines the promises and perils of this developing era.

Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible amounts of data are being created, interpreted, and fed back to us in a tsunami of apps, personal assistants, smart devices, and targeted advertisements. Virtually every industry on earth is experiencing this transformation, from job automation, to medical diagnostics, even military operations. Do You Trust This Computer? explores the promises and perils of our new era. Will A.I. usher in an age

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Running Time:

78 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Chris Paine

Producers:

Tiffany Asakawa, Jessie Deeter

Editors:

Paul Crowder, A.C.E.

Production Companies:

Papercut Films

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