Inspired by a recent comment, a potential AI movie or TV show that might introduce good ideas to society, is one where there are already uploads, LLM-agents and biohumans who are beginning to get intelligence-enhanced, but there is a global moratorium on making any individual much smarter.

There's an explicit plan for gradually ramping up intelligence, running on tech that doesn't require ASI (i.e. datacenters are centralized, monitored and controlled via international agreement, studying bioenhancement or AI development requires approval from your country's FDA equivalent). There is some illegal research but it's much less common. i.e the Controlled Takeoff is working a'ight.

If it were a TV show, the first season would mostly be exploring how uploads, ambiguously-sentient-LLMs, enhanced humans and regular humans coexist.

Main character is an enhanced human, worried about uploads gaining more political power because there are starting to be more of them, and research to speed them up or improve them is easier.

Main character has parents and a sibling or friend who are choosing to remain unenhanced, and there is some conflict about it.

By the end of season 1, there's a subplot about illegal research into rapid superintelligence.

I think this sort of world could actually just support a pretty reasonable set of stories that mainstream people would be interested in, and I think would be great to get the meme of "rapidly increasing intelligence is dangerous (but, increasing intelligence can be good)" into the water.

I think I'm imagining "Game of Thrones" vibes but it could support other vibes.