The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI, in partnership with DataX, invite you to a film screening of the Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary Ghost in the Machine.

This exclusive documentary screening will be accompanied by an expert panel featuring Professor Safiya U. Noble, Professor Alexandra Minna Stern, and two scholars who appear in the documentary, Dr. Tiera Tanksley and Dr. Shazeda Ahmed.

The event will take place from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at UCLA DataX (3312 Murphy Hall). Light refreshments will be available for registered attendees.

The film is a critical interrogation of AI’s historical roots in eugenics and a demystification of its contemporary realities. Ghost in the Machine weaves a video essay out of interviews with over two dozen data workers and scholars—hailing from science and technology studies, digital humanities, computer science, anthropology, media studies, history of science, cognitive science, education, critical theory, and sociology—whose critiques come alive when juxtaposed with archival video footage of prominent AI figures spanning from John McCarthy to Sam Altman.

“Ghost in the Machine is a wake-up call inside a searing analysis of power, technology, capitalism, its dangers to the environment, and how the uber elite view democracy.” - Deadline

“Top ten films we saw at Sundance 2026.” - SlashFilms

“If there is one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble, it’s this one” - The Wrap

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