LookUpNow: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Riveting New Film on Artificial Intelligence and our Humanity

LookUpNow (LuN) premiered on August 21, 2023 and is a riveting 24-minute film featuring #Futurist Gerd Leonhard as host, guide and narrator, directed and co-written by Emmy-award winning producer Christopher Sean Nolan. It is the first episode in a series of films on AI and the future of humanity currently being developed by Gerd and Chris. Please note: ENG, ES and PT captions are available - click on the CAPTIONS button:) In the film, Gerd sets forth that we should embrace Artificial Intelligence and harness its positive potentials while at the same time we must urgently consider and address its negative side-effects and unintended externalities. We must use AI as a powerful tool but not let it become a purpose on its own. AI should be used to help us to bring about what Gerd calls #thegoodfuture, not to replace humans, or to whittle away what makes us human, or to enable a synthetic, machine-led society. LuN explains why we should welcome smart machines but not seek to build generally intelligent artificial entities (AGIs) – because with digital intelligences, it’s competence that matters, not consciousness (quoting Professor Stuart Russell). NEW: edits with Portuguese In-Video (Burned) Subtitles: Spanish in-video subtitles: Turkish fixed/burned subtitles: German fixed/burned subtitles: Post-Premiere Live-Streamed Zoom Conversation: ? Watch my previous film, 5 years ago, on AI: We need to talk about AI: More details at More AI talks by Gerd: #lookupnowthefilm #techvshuman Executive producer, host and narrator: Gerd Leonhard Directed by Chris Sean Nolan Written by Gerd Leonhard and Chris Sean Nolan Edited by Chris Sean Nolan and Sylvain Collet Cinematography: Jeremy Holi (Studio Chamberlain) Assistant Camera: Julien Zanin Music licensed via Musicbed: PENDULUM THEORY - Fixation TONY ANDERSON - Freefall HAMMOCK - Tether of Yearning TONY ANDERSON - Retour JUDAH EARL - Before the Dawn WHY WE WANDER - Train Departure TONY ANDERSON - All is Not Lost DAVID A. MOLINA - Open Scroll RYAN TAUBERT - Marvel TONY ANDERSON - After the Storm ELY EIRA - Out Of The Shadows RYAN TAUBERT - Frenzy 00:00 - AI and humanity: heaven or Hell 01:00 - Towards a Good Future? 02:00 - Warp-drive into the future of AI 02:51 - Why I’m an optimist 03:28 - Picture a world where AI provides amazing benefits 04:44 - IF we proceed with care 05:08 - 2023: The big bang of artificial intelligence 06:30 - ChatGPT ...the Sputnik moment for AI 07:01 - $ 15.5 Quadrillion $ increase in GDP? 08:01 - Who is Mission Control for Humanity? 08:50 - What if we redirected AI, away from the collision course 09:04 - Previous moments of pause, and FLI’s open letter 10:33 - Standards and guardrails are not anti-business 10:55 - Our own Jarvis? 12:19 - What if Jarvis becomes HAL? 12:49 - Gerd in train with the talking robot 13:52 - Gerd talking to PI, the AI therapy bot 14:27 - A performance of empathy is not empathy 15:12 - The fake facetime call scam 16:21 - The fake / AI Gerd versus the real Gerd 16:44 - The International Artificial Intelligence Agency (IAIA), take 1 17:19 - The singularity and transhumanism 18:23 - Sharing our world with super-intelligent digital beings? 19:01 - Who’s in charge, and who’s WE? Mission Control, take 2 19:56 - The technocratic oath 20:36 - Humanity is at the fork-in-the-road moment 21:25 - Looking back from 2053 21:38 - Gerd talking to Emma, his AI helper: IAIA, Good Future Congress 22:50 - Collaborate or perish: AI, Nuclear Fusion, Quantum Computing 23:17 - The Future is better than we think ----------------------------- Watch Gerd’s other films: TWICE UPON A TIME: The Good Future or All about AI: or The future of work: or #thegoodfuture #techvshuman #futurist Please subscribe to this channel to never miss a thing, and be sure to share Gerd’s videos if you like them. And hit that notification bell:)) Sign up for Gerd’s ’Best Reads & Finds’ curated futurist newsletter at If you enjoy Gerd’s videos and talks, please take a look at his best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” - it’s now available in 14 languages! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland ****For all booking inquiries please go here Twitter: @gleonhard