James Barrat
Documentary filmmaker and author
James Barrat is an American documentary filmmaker and author who writes and speaks about the promise and dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Born 1960 in Hagerstown, United States
About James Barrat
James Barrat is an American documentary filmmaker who has worked on films for National Geographic, Discovery and PBS, and for broadcasters in Europe. He wrote Facing Suicide and Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. The Huffington Post named Our Final Invention a "Definitive Tech Book of 2013". He later wrote The Intelligence Explosion, which draws on interviews with AI researchers and ethicists. He also speaks to audiences about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.