But humanity has to win, right? But how do we show alignment failures, let alone multiple alignment failures if humanity has to win?
Drop that restriction.**
Research ways of doing this.*
Come up with ideas.*
*For instance:
An alien civilization is discovered. But they’re all dead. What went wrong?
You might think this is easier with biotech. But ‘AI enables better protein folding’ or ‘alien biology is simpler’ are options.
**There are other things that can be done to make a story more interesting, than following ‘regular scripts’.
(Some might be too difficult for a movie. What about a TV show? (Potentially, this can have more depth, or more breadth—like Black Mirror.))
Why have one villain (or any villains)? Or one existential risk? Meteor → alien virus → more research… (or searching for aliens/stuff that you’d expect to find in a universe where meteors carry viruses) → hostile and friendly/neutral alien contact → more war research and development → drones become a focus (because humans can’t always handle alien environments) → drones get hacked by aliens → ai research for countering threat (kind of hard to fight off cyber attacks when you’re far away because you can’t live on the planet) → hostile ai running drones
This leaves open the option of an uninhabited world (rich with resources and/or strategic position for war) getting nuked.
But humanity has to win, right? But how do we show alignment failures, let alone multiple alignment failures if humanity has to win?
Drop that restriction.**
Research ways of doing this.*
Come up with ideas.*
*For instance:
An alien civilization is discovered. But they’re all dead. What went wrong?
You might think this is easier with biotech. But ‘AI enables better protein folding’ or ‘alien biology is simpler’ are options.
**There are other things that can be done to make a story more interesting, than following ‘regular scripts’.
(Some might be too difficult for a movie. What about a TV show? (Potentially, this can have more depth, or more breadth—like Black Mirror.))
Why have one villain (or any villains)? Or one existential risk? Meteor → alien virus → more research… (or searching for aliens/stuff that you’d expect to find in a universe where meteors carry viruses) → hostile and friendly/neutral alien contact → more war research and development → drones become a focus (because humans can’t always handle alien environments) → drones get hacked by aliens → ai research for countering threat (kind of hard to fight off cyber attacks when you’re far away because you can’t live on the planet) → hostile ai running drones
This leaves open the option of an uninhabited world (rich with resources and/or strategic position for war) getting nuked.
Too long for one movie? Sure.