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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgDo You Trust This Computer is informative at the least. Everyone and everything comes off as credible, and the philosophy comes off as plausible. It effectively plants the seeds of paranoia.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s a brisk blur of a documentary that ventures from “How could a smarter machine not be a better machine?” to “the Faustian bargain” we’ve made with technology that will render 7,000,000 data entry jobs and 4,000,000 driving/transporting jobs (very soon) to medicine, law, journalism and other careers obsolete.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough it shows some strain in containing the topic's inherent sprawl, the doc is more thoughtful than some of its predecessors, and benefits from interviews with newsmakers like Elon Musk and, even better, Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan.
- 70The New York TimesKen JaworowskiThe New York TimesKen JaworowskiThough the film is heavier on summaries than specifics, its messages are troubling nonetheless.
- 67Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiFilm Journal InternationalChris BarsantiWith its star-studded cast of experts, from Ray Kurzweil and Elon Musk to automated warfare experts like Peter Singer, and a brief that is nothing short of the survival of humanity, Do You Trust This Computer? is a more sprawling and diffuse piece of work. It has a larger frame of reference than Paine’s battery-car docs but never hammers it into shape.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe movie is breezy to a fault. The interviewees are focused and articulate, but aren’t given time to cover more than the basics. Anyone who’s already been following the ongoing conversations about the future of AI won’t learn much new.
- Do You Trust This Computer? is defensible in some ways. It’s engaging, imaginative, and easy to watch, and it brings attention to a subject that’s going to have real and important effects on all our lives. But it sacrifices too much complexity and detail to achieve this, and it’s more misleading than informative.
- 50Village VoiceDaphne HowlandVillage VoiceDaphne HowlandThe doc never goes much deeper than the information and arguments on AI that can currently be found in the Sunday papers.