The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research’s repertory players bring Matthew Gasda’s new OpenAI-inspired boardroom drama Doomers—which follows the unraveling of a tech company as its leaders clash over ambition, ethics and the dangerous pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence—to life.
The new play chronicles AI company MindMesh ousting its gay, maybe sociopathic CEO Seth. While the first act documents Seth and his acolytes preparing for war, the second act presents the debates among the MindMesh Board. Doomers exposes both Seth and his antagonists’ human flaws amid looming catastrophe and asks the question: in humanity’s last act, who plays God?
