“There will be regulation. It's going to be written in blood. AI is a problem that is not going to be solved without enormous amounts of fraught regulation.”
Rachel Greenhoe
Screenwriter and actress
How will AI
change society?
Uncomfortable questions. Public debate. Since 2017.
We pose uncomfortable questions, encourage debate, and use ideas and film to educate the public.
- Educate
- Explain AI's benefits and risks
- Connect
- Bring experts together on AI policy
- Anticipate
- How AI changes us, how we counteract
- Strategize
- Options to protect and enhance humanity
- Act
- Take initiatives to steer AI toward human benefit
“…either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.”
Stephen Hawking, 2016
The Intelligence Explosion
“…100,000 years of evolution, this thing could probably achieve in a long morning.”
Terence McKenna, 1990s
“AI may converse intelligently about your favorite topics”
Nearly 1 in 5 working-age people worldwide now use AI
“…console you when you feel down”
Millions use AI companions
“Have your Virtual Assistant talk to my Virtual Assistant”
AI does shopping, scheduling, and work
“…drive you where you want to go”
Self-driving cars widespread
Expert systems in “law, accounting, medicine, education, finance”
AI drafts contracts, audits, assists surgeons, educates
“Dislocations in the workforce”
AI is number one reason given for job cuts
“AI-assisted hacking attacks will likely increase”
AI agents hacked Hugging Face
“AI-run drone swarms”
AI-guided drone swarms in Ukraine
“Luddite” movements
Thousands of communities resist data centers
“…equivalent intelligence to humans and even beyond”
AI firms now warn of superintelligence
Human work? Human relationships? Human creativity? Human power? Human meaning?
Where are we going?
WHO decides what AI does?
WHAT makes life most worth living?
WHEN machines do work, what do humans do?
WHERE is AI taking us?
HOW is being human meaningful?
WHY will humans be needed?
How do we get there?
“…make sure it's a god we can live with.”
Sam Harris, 2016
- Advise universities on AI curriculum.
- Hold symposiums on how AI will change society.
- Host expert panels on how AI affects society and filmmaking.
- Challenge filmmakers to imagine our future, with dedicated prizes.
- Educate filmmakers and the public about AI trends.
- Award films on AI's societal impact: superintelligence, singularity, warfare, universal surveillance, neural chips, deepfakes, addiction.
“This is the first technology in history to create stories.”
Yuval Noah Harari, 2023
Red GaiaUdesh Chetty
The Global Festival for Micro-Drama.
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3,800+submissions
2,850+filmmakers
355+winners
70+countries
Six initiatives
Voices from the stage
“When you use somebody's data, images, or voice to build your model and don't compensate them for it, I don't know what else you call it other than stealing.”
Scott Mortman
AI law and ethics professor, Purdue Global; SAG-AFTRA negotiations
“Hollywood and other major players are watching us. What's happening now is a very interesting rise in new generations of storytellers: people working with essentially no budget, creating amazing movies using AI.”
Simone Bocchino
Award-winning AI artist and music producer; director, “King Kong”
“AI gives us open opportunity for filmmakers to spend $500,000 to make something that looks like $30 million. Kind of a District 9 type level quality.”
Stephen Gibler
Producer and Co-Head of AI, Sawhorse Productions
“AI is just a tool. It's powerful, yes, but it cannot replace your creativity, your sensitivity, your perspective. Don't wait for the producer to open the door for you.”
Zoubeir JLASSI
Graphic designer and filmmaker; director, “A Breath Apart”; Tunisia
“I feel like AI is just moving in a direction where it's open to everybody. It's sort of trying to democratize what anybody can create.”
Michael Cole
Motion designer and AI filmmaker; director, “We Will We Will Prompt You”
“AI is like the tool I always have been waiting for, because the only limit now is imagination.”
Boris Eldagsen
Promptographer, lecturer, writer and director
“Making a movie still takes a lot of work. But maybe it doesn't take millions of dollars?”
Andy O.
OpenAI forum leader, AI product manager and designer
The guilds
The guilds educate and support AI filmmakers with tool and workflow updates, cooperation structures, networking, job opportunities, and communications.
Creator Guild
Everyone who has submitted to our festivals. Regular AI tools and workflow updates, and a global community of filmmakers.
Winners Guild
Elected award winners. Curated tool updates, early notice of screenings and calls for entry, industry opportunities, free tickets and streaming, and private member channels.
SUBMIT → CREATOR GUILD → WIN → WINNERS GUILD
2018
Film Superintelligence
Stories from Humanity's Future
“…the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced.”
Nick Bostrom, 2014