About the film

Chasing Utopia is a feature documentary asking the question everyone should be asking: will AI be humanity's greatest achievement or its greatest downfall? Mo Gawdat spent two years travelling the world - from Shanghai to Riyadh, New York to London - to find out, sitting down with the leading minds shaping our future including Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Jeffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The result is a film that might change the way you see everything. 

Showing in Everyman Cinemas from Friday 15th May 2026.
Special Q&A Screening on Tuesday 12th May 2026. Tickets available here.

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Who is Mo Gawdat?

Bestselling author, podcaster to millions, software engineer and former Chief Business Officer at Google X, Mo Gawdat has first-hand experience of how rapidly we are losing control of AI. It has become his life's mission to ensure the public have the knowledge and tools to harness its power for good. Find out more about Mo here. 

Who is in the film?

Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton

Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton

Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton

Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton

Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Prof. Yoshua Bengio

Prof. Yoshua Bengio

Professor of Computer Science, University of Montreal

Prof. Yoshua Bengio

Prof. Yoshua Bengio

Professor of Computer Science, University of Montreal

Prof. Carissa Véliz

Prof. Carissa Véliz

Professor Institute of Ethics in AI, Oxford University

Prof. Carissa Véliz

Prof. Carissa Véliz

Professor Institute of Ethics in AI, Oxford University

Prof.David Chalmers

Prof. David Chalmers

Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, NYU

Prof.David Chalmers

Prof. David Chalmers

Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, NYU

Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute

Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Former Head of GCHQ

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Former Head of GCHQ

Prof. Max Tegmark

Prof. Max Tegmark

Professor of Physics and Machine Learning, MIT

Prof. Max Tegmark

Prof. Max Tegmark

Professor of Physics and Machine Learning, MIT

Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis

Executive Chairman, X Prize Foundation

Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis

Executive Chairman, X Prize Foundation

Prof. Sherry Turkle

Prof. Sherry Turkle

Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT

Prof. Sherry Turkle

Prof. Sherry Turkle

Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT

Prof. Ya-Qin Zhang

Prof. Ya-Qin Zhang

Professor of AI Science, Tsinghua University

Prof. Ya-Qin Zhang

Prof. Ya-Qin Zhang

Professor of AI Science, Tsinghua University

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Founder of xAI

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Founder of xAI

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO of Meta

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO of Meta

Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei

CEO of Anthropic

Sam Altman

Sam Altman

CEO of Open AI

Sam Altman

Sam Altman

CEO of Open AI

Yao Maoqing

Yao Maoqing

Partner at Agibot

Yao Maoqing

Yao Maoqing

Partner at Agibot

Dr. Fred Jordan

Dr. Fred Jordan

CEO of FinalSpark

Dr. Fred Jordan

Dr. Fred Jordan

CEO of FinalSpark

Flora Brozzi

Fu Cong

China's United Nations Ambassador

Flora Brozzi

Fu Cong

China's United Nations Ambassador

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