Episode Details

2026 has produced an unusually dense cluster of documentaries about AI anxiety, platform power, intelligence agencies, and media empires. This episode works through ten picks chosen for one specific person — someone who cares about AI, power, media, and intelligence — and explains what each film is about, why it fits, and where to stream it. The roster ranges from Daniel Roher's AI Doc, with its impossible interview list of Altman, Sutskever, Hassabis, and Yudkowsky, to Alex Gibney's Musk, which is currently cinemas-only because distributors are nervous. Two of the ten are cinema-only right now and one has no streaming deal at all, so "where to watch" sometimes means "where to watch for it." Along the way: what Netflix's 27-minute Instadocs format reveals about how fast the public is expected to absorb a security incident, why a film about dementia sits next to a film about machine consciousness, and how the distribution fight over one documentary is the same fight the documentary is about. Episode 6059 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6059 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/461248)