Uncharted Territory is a project of the American Psychoanalytic Association Presidential Commission on Artificial Intelligence chaired by Drs. Todd Essig and Amy Levy.

Noted filmmakers Charles de Lauzirika (Director) and Jeremy Emerman (Director of Photography) are the documentarians joining Drs. Essig and Levy to produce the film.

Uncharted Territory is a film that asks what everyone else isn't asking: not what AI can or can’t do, but what gets lost when we use or have a relationship with an AI entity. The time to make this film is now; AI systems are becoming emotionally convincing and people are increasingly forming attachments to these new others that perform human connection without experiencing it. Using psychoanalysis as a guide, the film explores the invisible human processes that vanish or are transformed when another mind is replaced by an algorithm — and what's at stake for the future of human intimacy, connection, and experience."