AI Made a Movie About Its Own Future

Looking Glass Universe July 27, 2025
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My name is Mithuna Yoganathan and I did my PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. My channel is about the strange world of mathematics and science. For business enquiries, please email at looking (dot) glass (dot) universe (at) gmail.com I receive an overwhelming amount of email from people who have a theory of everything. I do not open these. If you would like to email about something else, feel free, but I can’t guarantee if/when I will reply- sorry!

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This short film is based on the report AI 2027: https://ai-2027.com/ Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do-experts-expect-agi-to-arrive/ The case for AGI by 2030 https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/ This video was supported by the Future of Life Institute’s Digital Media Accelerator: https://futureoflife.org/project/digital-media-accelerator/ This video is probably the hardest on I’ve worked on. It took me a month of full time work, plus I got a lot of help from a friend with the editing. It took a lot more work than my usual video, ironically enough. These were the AI tools used in the making of this video: Main character’s video and audio - HeyGen + ElevenLabs B-roll video - Veo 3 (thank you Google Deepmind for free access #giftfromgoogle) Other characters talking - Veo 3 (and sometimes ElevenLabs as well) Scripting - Claude 4 Sonnet/ Opus Character design and frames - Flux Kontext in OpenArt Agent 3 and 4 design and stills etc - ChatGPT o3 image model + Canva Thumbnail - ChatGPT o3

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