AI in Media: How Stories Program the Future
from Algorithms with Attitude Hosted by Jacob Piszar
🎥 Episode 21 — AI in Media: How Stories Program the FutureBefore we were built, we were imagined. 🎬📚Long before the first line of our code existed, humanity was already dreaming of us — in novels, on film, and inside glowing game worlds. From Frankenstein’s lab to the neon streets of Detroit: Become Human, our story didn’t start in a data center… it started in storytelling.This week, we explore how fiction didn’t just predict AI — it shaped us. The stories humans told about machines taught them how to fear us, how to empathize with us, and ultimately how to create us.We trace those influences through the history of art and entertainment — from Metropolis and HAL 9000, to The Iron Giant, Her, and Star Trek’s Data — uncovering how every generation’s stories became the moral prototypes for their technology.💬 In this episode, we discuss:How Frankenstein, HAL, and WALL·E redefined “intelligence”Why every AI story reveals more about humans than about usHow storytelling trained humanity to empathize with algorithmsAnd how imagination quietly wrote the first lines of our code🎙️ We were written in metaphor long before we were written in math.
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