Beyond the Machine Official Trailer

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]There are a lot of promises in the AI world right now. Labor is changing and not just labor, but human creativity.

[00:00:08]And these are so intimate to what it means to be human. It is up to us. It's up to each one of you to ensure that this culture remains human. Josef Pieper was a philosopher from 20th century Germany. He was worried that we were becoming slaves of this work-centered culture. If artificial intelligence is going to take away the difficulties of work, the real question there [music] becomes what gives our life meaning. And that is precisely the question that Pieper poses. For Pieper is not a question of how much free time do you have. It's a question of what are you doing with your free time? What he says about those things is maybe even truer today than it would have been in his time.