{"id":5450,"date":"2025-02-11T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doomers-review-hunkered-down-debating-the-peril-and-promise-of-a-i\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:13:51","slug":"doomers-review-hunkered-down-debating-the-peril-and-promise-of-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doomers-review-hunkered-down-debating-the-peril-and-promise-of-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doomers\u2019 Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar (<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/30\/theater\/mcneal-review-ai-robert-downey-jr.html\" title=\"\">\u201cMcNeal\u201d<\/a>) have clamored lately to tell stories about artificial intelligence, sometimes using it to help with the writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/31\/style\/matthew-gasda-dimes-square.html\" title=\"\">Matthew Gasda<\/a>\u2019s new play \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/doomers.fyi\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Doomers<\/a>\u201d is an addition to that pack. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/technology\/ai-comedy-museums-plays.html\" title=\"\">Inspired by<\/a> the 2023 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/18\/technology\/open-ai-sam-altman-what-happened.html\" title=\"\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gasda, who also directs this production, has double cast it, with 10 actors appearing in each performance. The cast I saw at artXnyc in Manhattan was nicely polished. (Most of the play\u2019s upcoming New York shows are at the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyncenterfortheatreresearch.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Center for Theater Research<\/a> in Greenpoint.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the characters erupt in flagrantly unlikely monologues, as when Alina (Zsuzsa Magyar), the company\u2019s scrupulous chief safety officer, tells her colleagues about disturbing recurring dreams, one of them vividly sexual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More troublesome is that their ethical arguments about A.I. feel rehashed if you\u2019ve followed the issue at all, and not credible as things these people would be saying to one another under these circumstances. There is the sense, too, that the play, whose New York run will overlap with a separate production in San Francisco in March, is trying both to mirror a culture and ingratiate itself with it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An Act I line, in which Seth uses a slur for the intellectually disabled to describe some board members, got a nasty laugh at the performance I saw. Yes, that word is having a resurgence and is fair game for a playwright to use, but does someone else really need to utter it in Act II? Similarly, probably one polycule joke would have sufficed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are mentions throughout of Elon, no last name given, but there doesn\u2019t need to be. (Seth, annoyed with Alina, snipes: \u201cYou shoulda just had Elon\u2019s baby when he wanted to.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDoomers\u201d is marketed as \u201c\u2018Glengarry Glen Ross\u2019 for the A.I. age,\u201d but I suspect that the HBO drama \u201cSuccession\u201d bears some responsibility for the play\u2019s misperception that board strategizing and corporate jargon make for riveting theater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The second act is all about MindMesh\u2019s board, but lines like \u201cWe\u2019re here to oversee and reduce risk and potential malfeasance\u201d are deadly without characters and situations to interest us in the stakes. For a play that takes place at such a fraught moment, it has a striking lack of tension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Maybe it\u2019s down to the dramaturgs, ChatGPT and Claude?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When I asked the publicist about that program credit, he told me it was \u201ca tongue-in-cheek joke\u201d \u2014 that Gasda had \u201cplayed around with Claude and ChatGPT asking the A.I. questions, so he would understand the technology he was writing about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Human error, then. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Doomers<\/strong><br \/>Through April 19 at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, Brooklyn, and artXnyc, Manhattan; <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/doomers.fyi\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doomers.fyi<\/a>. Running time: 2 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/theater\/doomers-review-ai-gasda.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar (\u201cMcNeal\u201d) have 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