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"Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing...As ever, Perry is the man you want questioning these people." **** Guardian

"Perry’s gaze is always as compassionate as it is intelligent...Perry is companionability personified and you felt you were discovering things with him and having a few laughs along the way." **** The Times

"Grayson Perry’s ability to see the absurd is necessary in this terrifying look into how artificial intelligence is set to transform humanity." **** Daily Telegraph

 

This two-part series finds artist Sir Grayson Perry in California, on a mission to understand how Silicon Valley’s booming tech industries are likely to shape, for good and ill, our human future. He focusses particularly on artificial intelligence, AI, because he believes it might be the biggest revolution of all, affecting almost every aspect of our lives.

Travelling all around the beautiful Bay Area, and assisted by an increasingly chummy chatbot, Grayson meets everyone from leading players in the industry to idealistic young start-up founders, as well as ordinary people who are adopting the latest innovations, and alarmed critics of the direction AI is taking us. It proves to be a mind-warping journey into the future.

As Grayson helps us understand just what Silicon Valley’s visionary technology is capable of, every encounter he has will raise profound questions in your mind about what it is to be human. They’re questions which will find expression in an artwork Grayson will create, inspired by his California adventure.

 

Series Director: Neil Crombie

Series Producer: Rory Toher

Executive Producer: Joe Evans

Film Editors: David G Hill and James Gold

Composer: Alexander Parsons

 

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