Intelligence Rising
Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 73 min
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
In 2014, Marc Warner foresaw that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, he has worked to ensure AI adoption is both safe, and widespread. But as AI progress accelerates, difficult choices must be made. To understand and confront these, he brings together elite thinkers and leaders from the EU, China and US for a geopolitical wargame in which participants are faced with possible scenarios for future global crises.
The result is an immensely fascinating, eye-opening and thought-provoking – and not least highly dramatic – film, where we sit at the table as some of the world’s sharpest minds try to find answers to the threats posed by both AI and each other. The representatives of the tech industry, the military and the humanities are also citizens of states with different interests and agendas. Has artificial intelligence set in motion a zero-sum game, or is it in everyone’s best interest to play on the same team for once?