Age of Machine
Just a few years from now, after the Generative AI and Agentic AI revolutions, a consortium of brilliant American and Chinese engineers have succeeded to create the first real Artificial Super Intelligence. It has been designed to help humans achieve a better world, fighting poverty, disease and climate change. But human greed, envy and distrust seem to make it a mission impossible.
Tagline: Artificial Super Intelligence will be here before we know it. And then everything will change….
We ain’t seen nothing yet!
The famous Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) made the following announcement earlier in May: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a book attempting to raise the alarm about superintelligent AI for the widest possible audience: “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”.
This is urgent.
Introduction
(INSPIRED BY FUTURE EVENTS)
AGE OF MACHINE is a Science Fiction screenplay for streaming series in 5 episodes, or adaptable for feature film, about a brilliant team of American and Chinese scientists that produce the first real Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) computer. Although the computer is designed to be benevolent and human compatible, it learns quickly that humans are making a mess of the world. It decides it’s time to intervene. It enforces a global balance of power between humans and ASI. Together they start working on a better world, but soon other ASI systems appear, challenging this balance of power. This results in an all-out nuclear war, leading to a post-apocalyptic world that looks like a starting point of The Matrix or Terminator.
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Jos FonteijnWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay, Other
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Genres:Sci Fi, Streaming Series (5 episodes)
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Number of Pages:268
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Language:English, Polish
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Cambridge Script Festival 2026Cambridge
January 16, 2026
Screenplay SERIES
PROFILE
I’ve been writing stories since the eighties. I followed amateur writing courses in the Netherlands and a professional screenwriting training in Amsterdam at the Colofon in the nineties.
Until now I’ve worked on a large number of screenplays in Dutch, including science fiction, comedy /satire, crime (heist, horror), psychological drama, road movies.
Since 2020, I have also written screenplays in English, both for feature film (science fiction, romantic comedy) and streaming series (science fiction).
CORE COMPETENCES
• Screenplay writing in English and Dutch (feature film, shorts, series)
• Teamwork on screenplay development and co-production
• ICT expert (cybersecurity and generative AI security and prompt development)
• Psychologist (including group training and motivational coaching)
Artificial Super Intelligence will be here before we know it. And then everything will change….
We ain’t seen nothing yet!
This is urgent.
AGE OF MACHINE was selected at the following festivals:
2025 Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition
2025 LA Film & Documentary Award
2025 Los Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards
2026 Age of Machine is WINNER of screenplay award for streaming series at Cambridge Script Festival