Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"

Future of Life Institute Podcast

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.

Here's Writing Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfMQ7hzyFW4

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