Seat at the Table: new short fiction film on AI (and help me with the next one?)

My new short fiction film 'Seat at the Table' is now out on Youtube!Premise:When Eva visits her Dad’s AI company, she meets Liam, the company’s flagship AI system, who she imagines as a polite, precociously-smart kid. But with the company’s co-founder claiming Liam 7 is too dangerous to release, Eva starts to wonder if her Dad can really control what he’s created.Would love to hear your thoughts on the film. It’s targeted at people who know fairly little about AI, to get them quickly up to speed on where we’re at right now and what this technology actually is. The main points I was trying to get across were:It’s grown, not builtIt’s fascinating[1]It’s deceptiveThe people making it are scared of itThe people making it are trapped in race dynamicsIt’s getting smarter, fastIf there are people you wish understood these things better, I’d love for you to show this film to them and, if possible, report back on their response. It’s always hard to gauge what effect a film is having, especially on people with low AI context, and I’ve found the anecdotal reports about my last film Writing Doom to be extremely helpful. The next ideaI’m currently developing the next project (though may change my plan if this one flops). The key things I now want to get across are:There’s something big coming, and it might be devastatingBut the future is still malleableHumans have collaborated to change course in the past, and we can again (Also: humans are pretty cool and worth saving)Here’s some ways to actually help, but ultimately you gotta take responsibility and go figure out for yourself how you can helpThis new angle is a reaction to AI stories (including mine) tending to be doomy to the point of demotivating. The go-to way to be not-doomy is to show positive visions of the future, get people excited about how good things could be. This does almost nothing for me, for some reason, so instead I'm gonna have a go at making prevention sexy. How you can helpThe idea itself I don’t want to ta