The Discerning AI Community of Practice based at the Center for Data Ethics will host a screening and panel discussion of the 2026 documentary film “Ghost in the Machine” on Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in The Commons Theater.
Food will be provided, and no registration is required.
Directed by Valerie Veatch, “Ghost in the Machine” is a gripping and urgently relevant investigative documentary that exposes the buried history of artificial intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny eugenics and entrenched structures of power long before it entered everyday life.
Rejecting the notion of AI as inevitable or objective, the film traces how myths of progress and efficiency have obscured deeper political and cultural agendas, revealing the ideological foundations beneath the systems now reshaping modern society. This is not a film about machines. It is a film about power. “Ghost in the Machine” interrogates who builds AI, who benefits from it and who bears the cost.
