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The scariest movie playing at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival isn’t about cursed audio recordings or a killer demon disguised as your true love; rather it’s a 110-minute essay film about how a handful of guys obsessed with numbers and quantifying human intelligence accidentally (or maybe intentionally) created the blueprints for a water-guzzling, pollutant-spewing, nonconsensual-nude-generating plagiarism device that’s easily manipulated by the worst people in the world and tenuously propping up an alarming percentage of the global economy.
If that description of the various technologies doing business as “artificial intelligence” raises your hackles, then you probably won’t enjoy Valerie Veatch’s Ghost in the Machine, which premieres in the Festival’s NEXT section. But if you’re interested in a new, engrossing, expertly edited way to push back the next time someone says, “Just look it up on ChatGPT” — well, Veatch has you covered.
“I’m so excited to share this film,” Veatch says in her introduction. “It’s an urgent piece, and it is from the heart.”
In the testimony of more than 30 experts — represented at The Yarrow Theatre by Adam...