{"id":716611,"date":"2026-03-13T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/war-games-about-ai-intelligence-rising-explores-promises-perils-and-the-tool-vs-agent-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:25:12","slug":"war-games-about-ai-intelligence-rising-explores-promises-perils-and-the-tool-vs-agent-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/war-games-about-ai-intelligence-rising-explores-promises-perils-and-the-tool-vs-agent-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"War Games About AI: \u2018Intelligence Rising\u2019 Explores Promises, Perils and the Tool Vs. Agent Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tArtificial intelligence, its future and its potential regulation are among the hot-button topics on many people\u2019s minds these days. Now, there is a film that allows you to watch some of the world\u2019s brightest minds take on AI in war <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, strategy exercises used in military and other contexts to test and improve tactical options and expertise by putting decision-makers under pressure by simulating aspects of a conflict. Oscar-and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Elena Andreicheva\u2018s documentary <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> has captured the experience for the big screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new film from the producer and director (short film <em>Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You\u2019re a Girl)<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV series<\/a> <em>Drugs, Inc.<\/em>) world premieres on Sunday, March 15, in the\u00a0F:act Award section of the\u00a0Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival,\u00a0CPH:DOX, whose\u00a023rd edition\u00a0runs through March 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe future is all to play for,\u201d highlight the press notes for <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em>. \u201cGlobal heavyweights \u2013 from military strategists to philosophers \u2013 join AI leader Marc Warner for a bold war game exploring how artificial intelligence might reshape power itself,\u201d they explain. \u201c<em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> reveals what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens when the brightest minds face the future they helped create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWarner is the CEO of Faculty AI, which he founded to \u201chelp organizations make better decisions using human-led AI,\u201d as the company\u2019s website notes. The AI entrepreneur and father \u201chas spent most of his life developing artificial intelligence,\u201d notes the CPH:DOX website. \u201cNow he spends most of his time wondering whether that was a good idea.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAmong the lineup of other minds featured in the film are the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Patrick Sanders, the former head of the British Army, former World Bank economist Patricia Geli, Skype creator Jaan Tallinn, Lucy Lim, research scientist in Google DeepMind\u2019s Frontier and Safety team, retired U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. economist Pippa Malmgren, and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDirected by Andreicheva and produced by her, Sean Richard, Mandy Chang and Paula Comley, <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> features cinematography by Harry Truman. Bradley Richards, Angus Sutherland and Frank Frumento edited the doc. Autlook Filmsales is handling sales. Watch a trailer for the doc here. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intelligence Rising | CPH:DOX 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVsnARpyP9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAhead of its world premiere, Andreicheva talked to <em>THR<\/em> about the genesis of the film, putting a who\u2019s who of power brokers and thinkers into a room to address possible and likely future scenarios relating to AI, the debate over AI as a tool versus an agent, and her takeaways from the experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cNormally, I spend ages developing my own stories, but in this instance, it was the reverse,\u201d the filmmaker recalls. \u201cMarc Warner, who\u2019s in the film, and I went to university together. We were actually lab partners. So, we are long-time friends. In one of our meetups, I remember him starting to talk about being quite worried about what\u2019s going on with AI.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe topic came up again later. \u201cAfter his son had been born, he rang me up and said, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m going to do something. I think the best way to do this is to do it as a war game, where you can try and find the right answers to some of the questions about what we\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d the director says. \u201c\u2018Do you think that might make an interesting doc?\u2019 And I turned it over in my head a couple of times and was like, \u2018Oh, yeah.\u2019 So, in this instance, sadly, it was not an original idea coming from the depths of my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs <em>Intelligence Rising <\/em>unfolds, war game scenes are interspersed with scenes of Warner with his wife and son Tommy, who becomes a human mirror of sorts for AI, introducing the narrative that the way AI learns is not all that different from humans, just much more accelerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThat was something that came up pretty early,\u201d Andreicheva tells <em>THR<\/em>. \u201cI didn\u2019t understand exactly how AI was learning and wondering, \u2018What\u2019s the problem Marc sees?\u2019 So, in the process of explaining it to me, Marc would mention Tommy, who is a bit younger than my kids. At some point, we got into this analogy for how AI learns. A thing I really, really hate is this idea that something is all far too complicated, so we all couldn\u2019t possibly grasp it anyway. It\u2019s this idea that AI is a black box, so let\u2019s not even bother. I don\u2019t buy that. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right. This <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> is going to change our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe director also felt that the \u201ccrazy beast\u201d of the war game scenes needed to be interrupted by family scenes, \u201cthese quieter moments where we learn a little bit to understand how this entity might develop and the point at which we might get worried.\u201d That\u2019s where the child analogy comes in. \u201cThe reality is, you can be very prescriptive, and you can teach your kids things, but there comes a point when they just start doing stuff on their own. And that is the analogy to get people to understand that with AI, we also don\u2019t have full control. And the learning is happening in a weirdly similar way.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-full alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((576\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Intelligence-Rising-film-still.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Stanley McChrystal in \u2018Intelligence Rising\u2019 film still, courtesy of CPH:DOX<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHow did <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> get its big-name talent lineup? \u201cThe caliber of their expertise is really fab, but it was quite a bit of touch and go there for a while, if people would show up,\u201d the filmmaker says. \u201cThe film team and Marc and his team worked together and put our heads together and tried to get as many really plugged-in people as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne of the memorable scenes in <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> sees the experts debating a future scenario related to Artificial General Intelligence, a state where AI matches or surpasses human intelligence across cognitive tasks. \u201cThe teams representing the leaders of the People\u2019s Republic of China and the United States, two entities racing for AI supremacy, felt things were escalating a bit, but maybe they could still have this under control,\u201d recalls Andreicheva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHarari is shown in the film arguing that AI is not a tool, but an agent, even an alien agent. \u201cThis debate has all to do with the fact that it is not a tool if you want real intelligence, if you want AI to be really capable to be useful,\u201d shares the filmmaker. \u201cIt has to be connected to the internet, and you have to give it a lot of data and a lot of capabilities. If you want AI to utilize its intelligence in a really broad, useful way, you have to give it a great deal of freedom, and at that point, it becomes extremely difficult to lock it down. But it can never get that good if you keep it in this tiny box. So my takeaway was that we need to be thinking about this much earlier [than many people may realize]. It\u2019s about timing rather than the particular mode of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tActually, \u201cI think that was really one of the learnings for some of the players in the game,\u201d too, Andreicheva tells <em>THR<\/em>. \u201cA lot of governments just assume they\u2019ll be able to pull the plug on Ai. I think it\u2019s just naive to think you could just [use a so-called kill switch] or ask it nicely.\u201d That is also one of the reasons why the doc maker shares that she hopes <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> will also make its way to people \u201cin the corridors of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat were the big takeaways from the <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> experience for Andreicheva? \u201cI was just so focused on making the film and hearing all these things that it took a while for it to land,\u201d she shares. \u201cI had my first AI nightmare about a year and a half in. It involved metal tentacles. Anyway, I was left thinking I don\u2019t think we can put [the] AI [genie] back in the bottle. I think this is going to be quite transformative, but in which direction is hard to say at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe director hopes audiences of <em>Intelligence Rising<\/em> will also come away with a thought that she took away. \u201cWhat I can do is think a little bit more about the future,\u201d Andreicheva tells <em>THR<\/em>. \u201cI can think about how things might change and what that means. And I can ask important questions, such as: Do we want a world where we don\u2019t work and robots do things?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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