Paper Clip Apocalypse (War Horse Machine)

Project summary

We want to create a short documentary and music video featuring the song 'PaperClip Apocalypse' that we wrote and recorded in November 2025 for the Keep The Future Human Contest. https://www.theexplorationhub.com/creativecontest

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

The projects goal is to bring the publics attention to the dangers of AGI and encourage the public to investigate their relationship, personal values and ethics in relation to the rapidly evolving AI technology. Similar to the way the song and music video from the 80's "We are the World" focused the worlds attention to the starving children in Africa, we intend to use our song (hopefully with help from some A-Listers) to help the general public become aware of what is going on with AI development and Big Tech. We aim to expose the truth behind the push for rapid AGI development and encourage humanity to call for regulations and guardrails to be put in place. If we all play a small part in protecting humanity by using our minds for critical thinking rather than letting machines do all the work for us, we can help to Keep the Future (imperfectly) Human. https://keepthefuturehuman.ai/contest/

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

Our team is a collective of Professional musicians, theatre artists, sound engineers and voice over professionals along with a supportive group AI Safety enthusiasts and tech industry experts. Here is a link to the demo prototype that we created for the contest - https://www.theexplorationhub.com/creativecontest

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

The longer the public is in the dark about AGI , the more unregulated development in technology and environmental damage will occur. If this project fails, the arts community will continue to be ignored and devalued and eventually AI (by replacing artistic process, authentic storytelling and human connection) will destroy our arts, culture and eventually our humanity.

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

We were awarded a mini grant of $500 dollars from the Keep The Future Human Contest to spend on marketing. (But the money has yet to be sent to us)

By sharing the message and story of the PaperClip Alignment problem to mainstream media and sharing the artists perspective about what is happening with the unchecked development of AGI . Public awareness will increase leading to a global slowdown of investment into non regulated development . And then money and information flow can be redirected to develop sustainable and ethical development of AI

The funding will be used to write and create a short Documentary about the different AI safety communities and perspectives - (working title) "From Doomer to Accelerationist - We all have a role to Play". The Documentary will be built from using the footage we filmed during the creation process of the song and interviewing participants experts and organizers from our AI Safety Canada monthly meet up. As part of the main story line of the documentary, we plan to host a creative and nature based retreat on the West Coast of Canada where players from a diverse selection of the AI world are brought together to find balanced solutions to our biggest problem in AI Safety - Alignment. During The making of the project.we also plan to further develop the song, to pay the performing artists and musicians, and produce an official music video. Some of the funding will also be used for the marketing of the final product.