Computer Says Maybe27 Juni 2025

The Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in Tbilisi

Smart people focused on technology politics issues get it. We trade high level helpful concepts like surveillance capitalism, automated inequality, and enshittification. And even as some of these ideas are making it more mainstream, normies aren’t getting the message. We need stories for that. But how? How do we take the technical jargon and high-level concepts that dominate tech narratives and instead create stories that are personal, relatable, and powerful?

And how do we combat the amazing hero-god narratives of Silicon Valley without reinforcing them?

Alix went to storytelling festival ZEG Fest in Tbilisi to chat with three amazing storytellers about that challenge:

Armando Iannucci, creator of Veep and The Thick of It: who discusses how to use humour and satire to keep things simple — and that stories are not ‘made up’, but rather a way to relay a series of facts and concepts that are complex and difficult to process.
Chris Wylie, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: on how the promise of superintelligence and transhumanism is basically like a religious prophecy. His new show Captured explores the stories that tech elites are telling us about our utopian AI future.
Adam Pincus, producer of The Laundromat and Leave no Trace: shares his frustrations with the perceived inevitability of AI in his day to day, and also tells us more about his podcast series ‘What Could Go Wrong?’ in which he explores writing a Contagion sequel with director Scott Burns.

Further reading & resources:

Captured: The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover — limited podcast series featuring Chris Wylie
**‘Contagion’ Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns Asks AI to Write a Sequel to Pandemic Film in Audible Original Series ‘What Could Go Wrong?’** — Variety article
What Could Go Wrong? — limited podcast series by Scott Burns

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