Documentary Premiere: The State of AI

The State of AI: Premiere Screening and Expert Panel

19 January 2027 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

AI is shaping how we learn, work, create and connect, and people are asking big questions about it. What can it really do? Is it fair? What happens to our privacy, our languages and our environment?

The State of AI is a new documentary that brings these questions to the people working on them right here in South Australia. Built on public conversations from National Science Week 2026, it features leading researchers from Adelaide University’s Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) and partners across the state. They share what the research says about bias, privacy, creativity, environmental impact and more, and invite audiences to imagine the futures we want to build.

The film doesn’t tell you what to think about AI. It offers facts and expert perspectives so you can form your own view. It is made for people of all ages and backgrounds, and no prior knowledge is needed.

The evening

• 5:30 pm: Arrival and drinks

• 6:00 pm: Screening of The State of AI

• 6:45 pm: Expert panel discussion and audience Q&A

• 7:30 pm: Closing

Credits: 

A film by Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Adelaide University

Directed and produced by Dr Maria Vieira and Dr Rebecca Marrone 

Edited and Cinematographed by Le Birck  

Featuring Dr Maria Vieira, Dr Rebecca Marrone, Prof Maarten de Laat, Associate Prof Negin Marriahi, Prof David Cropley, Dr Andrew Zamecnik, Dr Michelle Perugini, Dr Lisa Bailey, Dr Oscar Deho, Prof Ryan Baker, Prof Vitomir Kovanovic, Mr Adam Biggs, Mr Jarrod Johnson, Mrs Colleen O'Rourke, Mrs Paula Dimmel, Mr Gabriel Azpiculeta

Supported by Adelaide University and Australian Federal Government through Department of Industry, Science and Resources (National Science Week 2026) and the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP240100484).