🚨The last time Netflix delivered a doomer documentary to the global mass audience on the eve of an unprecedented policy expansion?
January 22, 2020: “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.”
One day before Wuhan’s lockdown.
Seven weeks before WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Production timeline: 2+ years.
Yesterday: “The AI Doc” drops to 260M subscribers.
Two days later: King Charles convenes Anthropic, Nvidia, DeepMind, OpenAI at Dumfries House to draft a “shared principles” AI charter.
Production timeline: 3+ years.
Same platform. Same architecture. Six years apart.
🚨 1/ Watch this AI Doomer trailer. Then read the timeline.
Netflix drops “The AI Apocaloptimist Doc” tomorrow — Sept 15 — to 260+ million subscribers.
This film took 3 years to make. It premieres 12 days after Sanders–Casar, 7 days after the Anthropic “whistleblower,” 3 days after Amodei’s “Pace the Frontier.”
That’s not a coincidence. That’s a launch. 🧵👇
H/t
@TheRoyalGrift for the scoop.