"Writing Doom", sci-fi short film, Suzy Shepherd, 2024, United Kingdom

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Director - Suzy Shepherd

 

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Trailer for Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024)

Oct 24, 2024

Grand Prize Winner - Future of Life Institute's Superintelligence Imagined Contestfutureoflife.org/project/superintelligence-imaginedWriting Doom is a short fiction film set in a TV show writers' room, in which the writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the 'bad guy' for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a machine learning PhD) they must discuss and explore how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist.

 

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Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024)

Oct 24, 2024

Writing Doom is a fiction short film about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI).
A writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the 'bad guy' for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a Machine Learning PhD), they must figure out how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist - and the threat it might pose to humanity.

Cast: Max - Adam Lloyd-JamesJerry - Mike KelsonGail - Amantha EdmeadAnders - Aleksander VaradianMimi - Imogen Westwood FloodProducer - Esmee Cook

Crew: Director of Photography - Richard AllenGaffer - Wil ThongFirst assistant camera - Jamie EvansSound recordist - David HeadMake up - Holly-Rose TomlinsonRunner - Sebastien Fletcher-BiddleEditor - Suzy Shepherd

 

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Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"

Nov 8, 2024

Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI risk. We discuss how to use humor in film, how to write concisely, how filmmaking is evolving, in what ways AI is useful for filmmakers, and how we will find meaning in an increasingly automated world.

Timestamps:

00:00 Writing Doom
08:23 Humor in Writing Doom
13:31 Concise writing
18:37 Getting feedback
27:02 Alternative characters
36:31 Popular video formats
46:53 AI in filmmaking
49:52 Meaning in the future