As mentioned in the intro of our episode entitled The Vaporstate: Buy Blair, Sell AI

• Any of you want to take a crack at talking about what you mean when you say AI? And how that definition might have evolved for you during your making of the film?
• Valerie: You describe your film as an ‘urgent excavation’. Why do you think it’s important to understand the histories and politics of AI?
• Others: A chance for others to chime in here on parts of AI’s history that you think will inform its future.
• Charlie and Daniel R: this panel is called Beyond the Hype. The first hour of the film is quite the hype train of both doom and alternatively tech as panacea. It got you into quite a tizzy too! There was a great, albeit short section of women experts in the film who all think the generative AI and AGI parts of the AI discourse are overblown. Did their perspective put you more at ease?
• Valerie, do you want to share your perspective on AGI as a concept / pursuit?
• Daniel K, AI has been framed as a frontal assault on creativity and creators. Can you share more about why you wanted to start the Creators Coalition on AI, and what you hope it accomplishes (plus other ways to get involved).
• Also Daniel K: Quote from the CCA site: “This is not a dividing line between the tech industry and the entertainment industry, nor a line between labor and corporations. Instead, we are drawing a line between those who want to do this fast, and those who want to do this right.” If I learned one thing from The AI Doc it's that the tech industry and companies universally want to do all of this fast. Where do you see zero sum aspects of what the CCA is doing?

Other tee ups / questions (you don't need to share these, but in case you'd opt for sharing the full gamut so they can feel prepared!)

• What aspects of AI might be useful for the creative process, and where you think it needs to be kept at bay?
• Ideas on the impact of generative AI on creativity itself?
• One film has two male directors with a large budget exploring the director’s assumptions and feelings about AI. The other has a female director without much budget interviewing a lot of intellectuals and experts on the history, politics and social harms of different forms of AI. How did you all finance the project? Any reflections on how you all might have approached AI as a topic given your backgrounds and production process?
• What did you learn about AI during the making of the film?
• Like all work about AI right now, I left both films feeling a little unsure of what to actually DO. What has making the film inspired you to do? Or what is one thing you wish everyone understood about AI?