Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

8 – 8:50 PM Eastern Time Zone

Session II: A Virtual Event

Training the “Stanley Kubrick - Charlie Kaufman” Level AI: Fact or Fantasy & the Question of Ethics

What would happen if an AI were trained with the entire oeuvre, the life work of Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder and John Ford? That would be like sharing the “Keys to the Hollywood Kingdom,” the finest in cinematography, screenwriting, humor, drama and editing as well. And even with that “Assemblage of Greatness,” attached to an AI of tomorrow, meaning an AI with a near-Einstein level mind, would that “Advanced Machine” be able to create, even with professional “Human Assistance” a truly great achievement in Cinema? This question is not an idle bit of humor or fantasy. In a world racing toward “Advanced General Intelligence,” it is a question that we might have to one day address.

Speakers:

Dr. Megan Ma,  Executive Director, Stanford Legal Innovation, Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab), Associate Director, CodeX, Stanford Law School, Moderator

Mark Goffman,   Writer/Producer, Netflix Series, The Umbrella Academy, Bull, Limitless, The West Wing

Sharad Devarajan, Industry Visionary, Adjunct Professor, Media & Technology, Columbia Business School

Additional Speaker to be Announced

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Dr. Megan Ma is the Executive Director of the Stanford Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab). Her research focuses on the use and integration of generative AI in legal applications and the translation of legal knowledge to code, considering their implications in contexts of human-machine collaboration. Her particular focus is on questions of legal education and the future of practice in light of new technological developments. She also teaches courses in computational law at the Law School and Department of Computer Science. Dr. Ma is also currently an Advisor to the PearX for AI program, Editor-in-Chief for the Cambridge Forum on AI, Law, and Governance, the Managing Editor of the MIT Computational Law Report, and a Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University in their Centre for Digital Law. Megan received her PhD in Law at Sciences Po and was a lecturer there, having taught courses in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning, Legal Semantics, and Public Health Law and Policy. She has previously been a Visiting PhD at the University of Cambridge and Harvard Law School respectively.


Mark Goffman currently is an executive producer for the upcoming NBC series, THE IRRATIONAL. Prior to this, Goffman was an executive producer and writer on THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, BULL, SLEEPY HOLLOW LIMITLESS and WHITE COLLAR. Goffman first started on THE WEST WING, and went on to run the writers' room for STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. Goffman has been nominated for two Writers Guild Awards and won the Entertainment Industries Council SET (Science, Engineering & Technology) Award. He began his career as a writer in Brussels, for the magazine Commerce in Belgium. He has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote speeches for state and federally elected officials, consulted to the U.S. military, Intelligence, Department of State and White House.


Sharad Devarajan is a media entrepreneur, producer and creator. His most recent company, Graphic India, is the culmination of his lifelong dream to launch superheroes and genre stories that tap into the unique creativity and culture of India but appeal to audiences worldwide. In the same way the West has created superheroes or Japan launched anime, Graphic India is transforming the perception of India in character entertainment from being an ‘outsourcer” to being ‘the source.’ The Company is one of India’s largest graphic novel producers and developes and produces multi-platform IP for live action film and televison, animation, podcasts, gaming and publishing. Devarajan has created over 200 animated TV/digital episodes and either published, edited or created over 300 comics and graphic novels. Some of his work includes the award winning animated series, “Astra Force” which premiered as a top rated show on Disney Channel India which he created with Indian icon, Amitabh Bachchan; He was also the Co-Creator and a Showrunner/Executive Producer, with S.S. Rajamouli and Arka Mediaworks, on the series “Baahubali: The Lost Legends,” which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in India and is currently on its fifth season after 71 episodes. Most recently Devarajan was Co-Creator and a Showrunner/Executive Producer of the first original animated series to premiere on Disney+Hotstar, “The Legend of Hanuman” which became the top binged and top watched show across all streaming platforms in India upon launch (as per Ormax Media/ChromeOTT).