‘There’s no winning strategy’: the pacy, visually stunning film about the dangers of AI – made by AI

Is artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question - using AI. The result was disturbingly watchable

A toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost. Someone's dog walks across a wall before reconfiguring its own body parts. Alan Warburton has created some truly mind-blowing images for his new documentary The Wizard of AI. But what's most impressive - or maybe most alarming - is the fact that he didn't actually create any of them at all.

I would say 99% of it was made using generative artificial intelligence tools," says the 43-year-old artist film-maker. So could his 20-minute film really be, as he has claimed, the world's first ever AI documentary?