Brighthink: Ghost In The Machine + Q&A with Valerie Veatch
EXCLUSIVE SCREENING & DIRECTOR Q&A
September 16 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
What do we mean when we talk about intelligence? Is it something that can be measured, ranked or reduced to a number? If we cannot even agree on what intelligence is, what exactly do we mean by artificial intelligence? Before we can debate AI’s promises or dangers, we first have to examine the assumptions hidden inside the language itself—and ask who defined those assumptions, and to what end.
Ghost in the Machine is a provocative and urgent investigative documentary that challenges the dominant story of artificial intelligence. Rather than treating AI as an inevitable technological revolution, director Valerie Veatch traces its intellectual and political origins, arguing that many of the ideas underpinning AI were shaped by histories of eugenics, scientific racism and the pursuit of quantifying human worth. The film contends that today’s AI systems inherit more than technical innovations—they also inherit the values and ideologies embedded in their creation.
Valerie Veatch is an acclaimed independent documentary filmmaker. She has written, directed, and produced three Sundance Film Festival premiering documentaries, Ghost in the Machine, Me @ The Zoo, and Love Child.
Veatch is a graduate of the New School for Social Research with a degree in Culture and Media Studies. Her award-winning work interrogates Tech.
- DOORS: 6.40pm*
- START TIME: 7.30pm*
- RUN TIME: 87 mins + discussion
- CERT: PG
*No hot food or alcohol from outside the premises is allowed. All alcoholic drinks consumed on the premises must be purchased from the bar as per the conditions of the venue’s licence.
