Petr Salaba

Petr and his team are actual filmmakers making some of the only AI art I admire. I can corroborate the key claim above about his augmented work being > an order of magnitude cheaper than traditional film production. The 12 month timeframe until _screenings_ is crazy fast but doable if the script comes together soon. I trust Petr to not make it manipulative (appropriate to the theme) and he's planning to consult the 'Gradual Disempowerment' authors to keep it real.

Major distribution is a whole other question, but he has one lead. Deals and lawyer latency is what's be most likely make the ambitious timeline slip.

Another concern is whether others will have taken up the theme in 12 months' time (see e.g.)).

(I'd have funded the project's full minimum but I'm tapped out.)

Conflict of interest: I worked with Petr on the Dwarkesh pod.