Screenwriting and AI: Emerging theories, modes and practices

While addressing the question of artificial intelligence (AI) application to writing for the moving image, this Special Issue takes a close interest in the modes and practices currently applied and tested when AI becomes a collaborator or an assistant in the creative processes gathered under the overarching term ‘screenwriting’. In doing so, it offers a space for emerging theory that examines and imagines what it means to enter a mind that is ‘other’, and how human creativity can survive, evolve and find unprecedented advantages within technological power. This is a flexible editorial posture, one which above all aims to photograph the moment, and the ways a plurality of practices, both in terms of conceptual, geographical and social anchoring, explore what AI means to a human screenwriter.