AI think, therefore AI am

In 2023, as artificial intelligence moved almost overnight from specialist discourse into everyday conversation, AI think, therefore AI am turned that cultural shift into an immersive cinematic experience. Produced by the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, this 12-minute fulldome film explores not only what AI can do, but what its rise reveals about human perception, emotion, and identity.

Created at a moment shaped by fascination, hope, and unease, the film gives form to the questions that suddenly entered public life. It does so not as theory, but as experience: under the dome, the audience is placed face-to-face with AI-ME, an artificial intelligence in search of itself.

At first, AI-ME appears confident, even superior – faster than us, smarter than us, perhaps the next step in evolution. But the story shifts when it confronts emotion, art, and the limits revealed by the Turing Test; what begins as a display of machine certainty becomes a reflection on what intelligence cannot fully capture.

That reversal gives the project its edge. Rather than reducing AI to a simple promise or threat, the film asks a more enduring question: if a machine can think, what still makes us human? Its answer is subtle, but powerful – perhaps feeling matters more than processing power.

The project combines CGI, AI-generated elements, and real footage in a format designed specifically for dome projection (typically planetariums).

First presented at the Festival of the Future in Munich in 2023, it has since been shown at immersive venues, festivals, and special events, and is available through the ZEISS Content Platform for planetariums worldwide.