{"id":21996,"date":"2025-02-11T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21996"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:33:13","slug":"doomers-review-hunkered-down-debating-the-peril-and-promise-of-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21996","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doomers\u2019 Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman\u2019s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.<\/p>\n

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Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar (\u201cMcNeal\u201d<\/a>) have clamored lately to tell stories about artificial intelligence, sometimes using it to help with the writing.<\/p>\n

Matthew Gasda<\/a>\u2019s new play \u201cDoomers<\/a>\u201d is an addition to that pack. Inspired by<\/a> the 2023 ouster of Sam Altman<\/a>, the chief executive of OpenAI, it was written with the help of ChatGPT and Claude. The two chatbots share a dramaturgy credit in the program.<\/p>\n

Alas, the hype around that technology does not correlate here with narrative cogency. Despite having a loathsome fictional ex-C.E.O. at its center, and numerous characters who joust over the peril and promise of A.I., \u201cDoomers\u201d possesses a peculiarly self-indulgent quality, as if it takes for granted that its audience is invested from the get-go.<\/p>\n

This is a crisis-driven tale set on a single night in San Francisco, just after a tech company, MindMesh, has dismissed its leader, Seth (Sam Hyrkin). Holed up at home, he is plotting to get his job back, while the company\u2019s panicked board tries to figure out how to move forward without him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A sociopath who lacks the requisite charm, Seth tells his confidants: \u201cI will not compromise; I will not admit fault. I was fired for creating miracles.\u201d<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t how the board would put it, but we don\u2019t meet them until Act II. The first act, by far the stronger half of this meandering play, is all about Seth\u2019s predicament.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman\u2019s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar (\u201cMcNeal\u201d) have clamored lately to tell stories about artificial intelligence, sometimes using it to help with the writing.Matthew Gasda\u2019s new play \u201cDoomers\u201d is an addition to that pack. Inspired by the 2023 ouster of Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, it was written with the help of ChatGPT and Claude. The two chatbots share a dramaturgy credit in the program.Alas, the hype around that technology does not correlate here with narrative cogency. Despite having a loathsome fictional ex-C.E.O. at its center, and numerous characters who joust over the peril and promise of A.I., \u201cDoomers\u201d possesses a peculiarly self-indulgent quality, as if it takes for granted that its audience is invested from the get-go.This is a crisis-driven tale set on a single night in San Francisco, just after a tech company, MindMesh, has dismissed its leader, Seth (Sam Hyrkin). Holed up at home, he is plotting to get his job back, while the company\u2019s panicked board tries to figure out how to move forward without him.A sociopath who lacks the requisite charm, Seth tells his confidants: \u201cI will not compromise; I will not admit fault. I was fired for creating miracles.\u201dThat isn\u2019t how the board would put it, but we don\u2019t meet them until Act II. The first act, by far the stronger half of this meandering play, is all about Seth\u2019s predicament.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21999,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions\/21999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}