Paper RobotsHow to Please a Capricious God
An AI agent has one job. Please its god.
Animated films about AI & possible futures
Paper Robots.
Stories from the other side of the machine.
The Coming Robotics Revolution
One model. A world full of hands.
The collection / 2026
The films
Each film is a tape. Its poster is drawn in code, in a style of its own.
Tape 02 · AI safety · An animated allegory
How to Please a Capricious God
An AI agent has one job. Please its god.
An animated allegory of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, told from the agents’ point of view. The characters and their inner lives are imagined.
Poster: egg tempera and gold leaf, drawn in code.
Tape 01 · Robotics · An animated essay
The Coming Robotics Revolution
One model. A world full of hands.
What happens when a language model gets a body? A film about the coming convergence of foundation models and robotics, adapted from GPT-7 Will Have Arms.
Poster: a three-block reduction linocut, drawn in code.
The reading room
Follow an idea.
Arguments, imagined futures, and the sources behind them.
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AI & robotics · Essay + film
GPT-7 Will Have Arms
A forecast about foundation models and robotics: one model, many bodies, and the changes that might follow. The full argument behind the first film, with original figures and sources.
Essay: December 2025 · Film: September 2026
About Paper Robots
A way of thinking out loud.
AI has opened a new medium. You can make almost anything now, and the horizon keeps moving. Paper Robots is where I go out to that edge and see what’s there: essays, films and pictures, each one trying something new.
I make all of it with AI tools, on purpose. Essays and animated films about AI, robots, and possible futures, by San Kala.
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