'Zi' Review: Michelle Mao Is Magnificent in Kogonada’s Transcendent Meditation on Time What follows this pointed opening is a whirlwind of an experience that grapples with urgent historical and sociological questions underpinning the technology. Veatch moves rapidly between interconnected topics in a way that is exhilarating, although for some it could be overwhelming. Her film comes out of the gate at confident, breakneck speed and never slows down. The film argues that there is no time to waste, and it rises to meet the moment. Veatch won’t be intimidated by the “ghost in the machine” and is instead like a one woman Scooby-Doo mystery gang, unmasking the fantasies that surround these ghosts for being what they are: an extension of techno-fascism. While this could be didactic or tiresome in the wrong hands, “Ghost in the Machine” has a playful edge that keeps you riveted. Veatch is on a crusade, intent on exposing the costly lies we are being told about AI. But her film and its many fascinating and knowledgeable experts make their arguments with such compelling verve and sharp analysis that only the most self-serving of AI evangelists would deny the intellectual rigor. Where everything else about AI in our present moment seems built on desperate hype, Veatch cuts through all the noise to wake us up from this nightmare. Though she never herself makes an appearance, her fearless film makes her a Michael Moore for our hyper-online world. Read Next