Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"
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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
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