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Ghost in the Machine - film screening

Sun, Aug 30 · 6pm to 9pm · $15 · Other

About this event

Ghost in the Machine is a gripping investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence. Rather than a neutral system of algorithms, it presents AI as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life. Rejecting the notion of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how myths of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas. Structured as an eight-chapter inquiry, it blends historical excavation with contemporary analysis to confront who built these systems, whose values they encode, and who benefits. Directed by Valerie Veatch, whose Sundance-premiering films ME @ THE ZOO and LOVE CHILD (both HBO) examined how emerging technologies transform identity, power, and culture. This is not a film about machines; it is a film about power.

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When: Sun, Aug 30, 6pm to 9pm

Where: The Last Bookstore, 453 S Spring St, Ground Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90013 · Map

Venue: The Last Bookstore · Book Stores

More events: Other Arts & Entertainment

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