Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future

Miniseries

2026 · 2 episodes · 1h 34m in all

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   15 Apr 2026 · 47 min

   His journey begins in the Bay Area where he is assisted by an increasingly chummy chatbot. He meets everyone from leading players in the industry to idealistic young start-up founders, as well as ordinary people who are adopting the latest innovations and alarmed critics of the direction AI is taking the world.

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   2. Episode 2

   22 Apr 2026 · 47 min

   Grayson concludes his tour of Silicon Valley by considering the motivations of the men behind the technology, such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos - and how their values might be challenged. He meets a scientist working on empathetic robots which offer a more human-centric alternative to the priorities of the industry and encounters one of the key players in AI, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, grappling with the possibility that AI could be shaped in such a way to offer a more optimistic future.