PBS premiered 'Ghost in the Machine', a Sundance AI documentary, on Independent Lens
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Valerie Veatch's 'Ghost in the Machine' premiered 2026-09-14 as the season 28 opener of PBS Independent Lens, running 1 hour 36 minutes and streaming free on pbs.org, the PBS app and the PBS YouTube channel. The film argues AI is not a neutral system of algorithms but a technology shaped by racism, misogyny and eugenics long before it reached consumers. The r/artificial thread is small and split, with one commenter calling it 'eugenics and misogyny with AI strapped on' and others noting the pbs.org video page currently errors out while the YouTube copy plays.