https://notaidoc.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/bb51c530-0d98-44b6-a55f-c22a15e33a12/SFF26_Official_Selection_Laurel+WH.png https://notaidoc.com/not-ai daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://notaidoc.com/press daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/537ba697-eca6-4087-a45d-5bb1543fab9d/Filmink.jpg Press - Valerie Veatch Asks the Big AI Questions “[T]he first thing is that computers cannot think, that is an invented concept. And rather than computers being able to think, we’ve reinvented thinking to be something computers can do. And when we do that, all manner of power consolidation, wealth consolidation, technological monopolies happen and we are looking at this fantasy enemy instead of the real political work and community work to be done.” Valerie Veatch for Anthony Frajman, FilmInk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/a919651a-f532-4a70-9a87-402131a84b37/Deadline_Hollywood-Logo.wine.png Press - Independent Lens Acquires Sundance Hit ‘Ghost In The Machine’ “Ghost in the Machine ‘is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched power structures long before it entered everyday life,’ notes a release. ‘Challenging the myth of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how narratives of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas, revealing the ideological foundations beneath systems now reshaping modern society.’” Matthew Carey, Deadline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/fe3dede0-bdbe-4491-801f-77c03b210cb6/Slashfilm.jpg Press - Sundance 2026: The 10 Best Movies We Saw At The Festival, Ranked “Ghost in the Machine provides a thoroughly researched history of artificial intelligence, from the term's inception as a mere marketing tool to today's efforts of technology executives like Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Along the way, this eye-opening chronicle of AI reveals concerning and ongoing ties to eugenics, the unsettling hand-waving of various cultural and social grievances, and the very real toll that this misleading technology is already having on humanity.” Slashfilm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/e6f9594f-fada-4ee2-9a6e-3358312066f7/ms_magazine_logo.webp Press - Sundance 2026: The Masculinist and Eugenicist Origins of AI Are Writ Large in Documentary ‘Ghost in the Machine’ “A fast-paced Sundance documentary traces how modern AI’s obsession with ‘intelligence’ and innovation is rooted in the eugenicist, sexist and racial hierarchies that have long shaped Silicon Valley and its technologies.” Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Ms. Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/5cc2e6fb-4bc7-42c4-ada1-6ba23db5f970/the+observer.jpg Press - Celebrating the Power of Film and the Best of Humanity at Park City’s Last Sundance “Ghost in the Machine delivers a thought-provoking takedown of Techno-Fascism. Valerie Veatch’s exploration of the eugenicist roots and colonial and anti-environmental reality of the A.I. arms race…tells the tale of a society that has lost its moral and humanitarian bearing at the behest of techno-oligarchs, amalgamating our own labor to keep us divided.” Oliver Jones, The Observer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/eb4746c9-c933-401d-b9f8-14c7018b9062/Forbes.jpg Press - Understanding AI’s ‘Ghost In The Machine’ Is Vital Amid Vast Spending “While most of the world’s biggest companies burn through hundreds of billions of dollars in the race to achieve general artificial intelligence, a documentary called Ghost in the Machine debuted this week at the Sundance Film Festival, questioning both AI’s dubious roots in eugenics and race ‘science,’ its worker exploitation in slums worldwide, and the possibility that all this spending is kinda just hooey.” David Bloom, Forbes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/d07984a6-73c8-4d42-922e-10868c9f9dae/Indiewire.jpg Press - Mind-Bending Sundance Doc ‘Ghost in the Machine’ Asks the Hard Questions About AI’s Origins and Potential Misuses “[Veatch’s] new Sundance premiere features new talking-head interviews with an array of philosophers and scientists, plus archival footage of controversial AI figures such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk, to create a cautionary tale about the potential misuses of AI and its devastating impact on the environment, culture, and society.” Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/90bc70ab-5525-4938-ade1-84d0730dc7b5/engadget.jpg Press - Sundance doc 'Ghost in the Machine' draws a damning line between AI and eugenics “Ghost in the Machine paints the rise of AI as a fascistic project that aims to demean humans and establish the techno-elite as our de facto rulers.” Devindra Hardawar, Engadget https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/c417f9a3-0a99-41f9-ad9c-16178f375c94/thewrap-logo-2024-e1733152848608.jpeg Press - ‘Ghost in the Machine’ Review: Documentary Delivers a Searing Takedown of AI, Elon Musk and Techno-Fascism “The film argues that there is no time to waste, and it rises to meet the moment. Veatch won’t be intimidated by the ‘ghost in the machine’ and is instead like a one woman Scooby-Doo mystery gang, unmasking the fantasies that surround these ghosts for being what they are: an extension of techno-fascism.” Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/753a8dc2-5fca-45e2-8279-81de5629105f/Roger+ebert.jpg Press - Sundance 2026 “Watching director Valerie Veatch’s deeply distressing ‘Ghost in the Machine’ made me think of the following phrase: The people hardest to wake up are those who pretend to be asleep. This film is designed to jolt people out of their false slumber about the dangers of artificial intelligence. If you aren’t convinced of the danger of AI’s proliferation due to the ways it has devastated the environment and harmed the arts, Veatch wagers that you might join the resistance if you see AI as being a form of modern-day eugenics.” Zachary Lee, RogerEbert.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/2210c28a-fb7d-40c2-90a0-f57b647449be/the+park+record.jpg Press - Who has the power? ‘Ghost in the Machine’ questions AI and the lie of democratization at Sundance “For Veatch, this isn’t about rejecting technology outright. It’s about insisting on agency. The solution many historians, sociologists and computer scientists offer in the film is to refuse to use it. And with every moment of resistance where humans decide they don’t need AI, it loses its impact and its grip on power.” Klara Meyer, The Park Record https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/6d826a22-a5a7-4995-9d3f-66673c12dd12/logo-filmmaker-01-2643x1356.jpg Press - “We Will Be Passing Out Little NOT AI Buttons to Our Audiences”: Valerie Veatch on Her Sundance-premiering Ghost in the Machine “Valerie Veatch’s Ghost in the Machine proposes a different possibility altogether: that ‘AI,’ if you can even call it that, is just the latest in a long line of grift-y attempts by powerful, exclusionary white guys to remake the whole world in their own image.” Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/e82eed24-87bb-4e7d-b2b8-dcf9d7e8ee31/ida.jpeg Press - Valerie Veatch traces the links between AI and eugenics in Sundance-premiering Ghost in the Machine, a self-funded documentary treatise made with Zoom calls and conviction “Ghost in the Machine is a burningly urgent self-funded documentary treatise connecting the historic and on-going links between AI and eugenics.” Katerina Cizek and Shirin Anlen, IDA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/6bc4b75c-c6c8-4e9a-99fa-198ac2652f16/Untitled-1-01.jpg Press - Sundance 2026: GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a Chilling Exposé of AI’s Dark Origins “Writer, director, and producer Valerie Veatch takes a subject that feels completely mined of fresh insight and reveals the terrifying ideology at its core. In doing so, she exposes how the biases baked into AI systems aren’t bugs, but features — hardwired by their architects to reinforce their worldview.” Dan Tabor, Cinapse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/64a84a8a-01e7-4e59-a82b-d46c941cdc57/the+playlist.jpg Press - ‘Ghost In The Machine’ Review: This Isn’t Your Everyday AI Documentary “There’s a tremendous amount of information flowing throughout ‘Ghost In The Machine,’ and it seems like too much to ingest. Veatch maintains the pace with skilled editing and an unsettling score. Everyone profiled passionately stands behind their articulate words, a large reason why, as the credits roll, this film works, just in a way one might not expect. Whether the messages land on first viewing or second, they will, and they should.” Brian Farvour, The Playlist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/d5b8b80e-e702-494c-963f-b7db1219c254/Rolling+Stone%2C+22+most+anticipated+movies+at+sundance Press - 22 Most Anticipated Movies at Sundance 2026 "And then there’s this entry in the fest’s more experimental, odds-and-sods NEXT sidebar from documentarian Valerie Veatch (Love Child), which takes a more essayistic approach about the history of human advancement through technological advances, and how the combination of utopian ideology, dystopian nightmares and good old-fashioned exploitation are playing into what could happen next with AI." David Fear, Rolling Stone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/84900acd-aff9-4283-96ed-7d27895cc964/What+%28not%29+to+doc Press - 2026 Sundance Don’t Miss Docs: GHOST IN THE MACHINE Basil Tsiokos, what (not) to doc https://notaidoc.com/bookclub daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/3cde26c1-b14d-4e42-9984-e5caaaedd899/More+Everything+Forever.jpeg Book Club Book cover titled 'More Everything Forever' by Adam Becker. The background features a starry space scene with a barcode-like design. The subtitle mentions AI overlords, space empires, and Silicon Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691f1ea7ab4f46319534910f/1770344881823-36B8TMY3G51DKG0EPVTW/Superior.jpg Book Club A split image of a Black and a white statue side by side, with the title 'SUPERIOR' in large red letters at the top. 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