
I Compute, Therefore I Am: Does Artificial Intelligence Threaten Our Human Identity?
Filmmaker Volker Strübing builds an AI companion he names Thekla, then uses her as a foil to ask what still separates humans from machines. The film moves through the domains AI has already colonized: algorithms writing love poems, diagnosing cancer, driving cars, and controlling weapons systems in war, and asks why a painting or poem loses value the moment viewers learn a machine made it. Strübing talks with researchers and technologists about simulated empathy and whether a program can be creative or only convincingly mimic creativity. The documentary does not chase a single thesis so much as test one boundary after another, chess, conversation, art, intimacy, watching each one blur under pressure from actual working systems rather than speculation. Interviews and demonstrations carry the argument, with Thekla returning throughout as a running experiment in what it feels like to interact with something built to pass as human. The question left open at the end is which tasks people are willing to hand over, and which ones they insist on keeping for themselves.