180 - AI Storytelling: What Remains Properly Human

About this episode

The episode discusses AI storytelling with insights from a former Disney engineer and a novelist amidst the backdrop of tribalism in media.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/1jTkmfAQ9SI We live amid tribal AI arguments: every machine-made frame is "slop," or every model is just a new paintbrush. This Mythic Mind conversation slows down between those poles with a technologist and a novelist. Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by Josh Daws (former Disney software engineer; VP of Technology at The Blaze) and novelist Michael Kane (After Moses) to ask what AI-generated media can and cannot bear as storytelling, and what remains properly human when prediction scales into myth-shaped output. Topics include creativity and collaboration with tools, the temptation of knee-jerk culture-war takes, and how authors and audiences might keep soul in an age of autocomplete. Related: • Video Games and the Psyche (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 52): https://youtu.be/-BS688rdNW8 • Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189): https://youtu.be/DwKDIRfQGQY • A Life Well Lived (Mythic Mind, ep. 188): https://youtu.be/2Dgj68PWXdQ • English Romanticism w/ Josh Traylor (Mythic Mind, ep. 184): https://youtu.be/JN81DlZZjq8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.c... Listen to/watch the…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Snyder

Guests: Josh Daws, Michael Kane

Topics covered

• AI storytelling
• tribalism
• media
• artistic tools
• film direction
• science fiction
• crowdfunding

Keywords

• AI
• storytelling
• Disney
• film
• science fiction
• Kickstarter
• media
• art

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Disney, The Blaze, YouTube, Kickstarter

Books & works: After Moses, The Witch of Hobomock Pass

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