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'Making God': A Documentary on AI Risks for the Public (Manifund Project)
webA crowdfunded feature documentary project called 'Making God' aimed at educating the general public about AGI risks, featuring interviews with AI luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, seeking distribution on major streaming platforms.
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Making God is a feature-length documentary in production that investigates the race toward AGI and its associated risks, targeting non-technical audiences. The project has secured interviews with AI 'Godfathers' Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, as well as Gary Marcus, and is seeking funding to complete filming. It aims for streaming platform distribution to inform hundreds of millions of viewers about AGI risks.
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- •Documentary targets non-technical audiences to explain recent AI advancements and risks from the race to AGI, following models like The Social Dilemma.
- •Secured interviews with Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Gary Marcus — prominent voices on AI risk.
- •Crowdfunding on Manifund with $205,094 raised toward a $368,754 goal, with a ~$150,000 funding gap remaining.
- •Aims for film festival recognition and distribution on major streaming platforms to maximize public reach.
- •Takes an objective, truth-seeking approach exploring both risks and optimism around the coming AI revolution.
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Making God Update [4th July 2025] - Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed
Updates:
We have secured interviews with two of the ‘Godfathers of AI’ - Prof. Geoffrey Hinton & Prof. Yoshua Bengio.
We have wrapped our first 'leg' of production. We are now back in London to plan the rest (and largest part) of our filming in the UK, US, and Canada. We still have around 10-12 interviews to film.
We now have a funding gap of just over $150,000. Please help us finish filming today by donating.
Below we have some stills from our last shoot.
Making God Update [12th May 2025] - Gary Marcus Interview, NY
***Watch our exclusive teaser clip of the interview on X/Twitter and LinkedIn***
We spent the last couple weeks in New York and hired a full crew (around 9/10 people on set) to film a professional cinematic interview with Gary Marcus.
Project Summary:
To create a cinematic, accessible, feature-length documentary. 'Making God' is an investigation into the controversial race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Our audience is a largely non-technical one, and so we will give them a thorough grounding in recent advancements in AI, to then explore the race to the most consequential piece of technology ever created.
Following in the footsteps of influential social documentaries like Blackfish/Seaspiracy/The Social Dilemma/Inconvenient truth/and others - our film will shine a light on the risks associated with the development of AGI.
We are aiming for film festival acceptance/nomination/wins and to be streamed on the world’s biggest streaming platforms.
This will give the non-technical public a strong grounding in the risks from a race to AGI. If successful, hundreds of millions of streaming service(s) subscribers will be more informed about the risks and more likely to take action when a moment
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