MIRI’s 125th newsletter, published ahead of the March 26 opening of the documentary “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” calls on readers to buy tickets for opening weekend and to encourage friends and family to do the same. The organisation says strong opening-weekend performance will encourage theatres to extend the film’s run and increase the chances of international releases.
The newsletter describes the film as an official Sundance and SXSW selection that follows documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher as he investigates AI risk while preparing for a new baby. It features interviews including MIRI’s Eliezer Yudkowsky. Daniel Kwan, a producer on “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” is listed on the producing team. MIRI notes that two of its staff were interviewed for the film but that it was not involved in production.
On the book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” the newsletter reports new editions available in Spanish, Italian, and Bulgarian, with Dutch (March 24), Brazilian Portuguese (April 2), and Japanese (April 22) release dates announced. The newsletter states the book reached the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the best books of 2025 by The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Audible. It notes that Representative Brad Sherman held up a copy during a January congressional hearing.
The newsletter reports several other advocacy developments: a protest and march in San Francisco on March 21, organised by Stop the AI Race, calling on the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI to commit to pausing frontier AI R&D if every other major lab does the same; a briefing by Eliezer Yudkowsky and MIRI CEO Nate Soares to Senator Bernie Sanders on superintelligent AI risks; and a post by Representative Brad Sherman about legislation to address AI controllability. The newsletter also references MIRI’s published plain-language summary of a technical paper on verification mechanisms for international AI agreements.
The newsletter closes by noting MIRI’s communications team has grown from five to thirteen people and that the organisation plans further content experiments to “raise awareness about extinction risk and build political will.”