Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero—not the villain

Billionaire founder of XPRIZE Peter Diamandis is tired of the doomsday scenarios painted by movies like Terminator or Ex Machina.

The engineer and Harvard-trained doctor turned entrepreneur is trying to change the narrative with a new $3.5 million Future Vision XPRIZE. Backed by Google and talent agency Range Media Partners’ 100 Zeros initiative, the fund will promote “optimistic sci-fi,” offering a novel look at an often dystopian-geared subgenre of science fiction movies. 

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