{"id":85987,"date":"2025-08-22T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85987\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:58:08","slug":"black-mirror-creator-charlie-brooker-on-fearing-ai-script-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85987\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker On Fearing AI Script Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCharlie Brooker<\/a> has built a TV writing career imagining ways in which technology will disrupt human life, and now the Black Mirror<\/a> creator has voiced anxiety about how AI will change writing processes.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking at the Edinburgh<\/a> TV Festival, the British writer said he was not worried about being replaced by artificial intelligence, but that notes will start being generated from \u201cAI animatics\u201d of scripts. <\/p>\n

\n\tBrooker said the notion was suggested to him by another writer, who said scripts would be fed into a machine, which would produce a rough animated cut of the drama, from which changes could be suggested.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat felt plausible to me, because basically the script becomes a prompt,\u201d he told a packed audience of British television executives. \u201cThat worries me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooker stressed, however, that he felt there would always be a demand from audiences to watch stories born out of human experience. \u201cI hope there\u2019s still a job for keeping keyboards warm with flesh,\u201d the writer said.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of his AI riffs, which sounded like the beginnings of a Black Mirror episode, was that cinemagoers could have their faces scanned as they enter a theater \u2014 and then see themselves as characters on the screen. <\/p>\n

\n\tBrooker \u2014 who teased an upcoming announcement about a new and \u201cvery different\u201d creation \u2014 also spoke about how understanding Netflix<\/a> had been about satirizing subscription models in Black Mirror episode Common People, starring Rashida Jones.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would love to say that I stormed into a boardroom and went: \u2018This must happen.\u2019 No, they\u2019ve been very up for that sort of thing,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooker said he was fortunate in being able to cast actors, including Paul Giamatti, in the anthology drama, but said he still has to write \u201cbegging letters\u201d to some. He added that most consider Black Mirror a fun gig. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting because you\u2019re not bored, and you don\u2019t have familiarity breeding contempt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker has built a TV writing career imagining ways in which technology will disrupt human life, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,43338,43339,2169,39792,392,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-85987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-black-mirror","12":"tag-charlie-brooker","13":"tag-edinburgh","14":"tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","15":"tag-netflix","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}