Afro Algorithms (13:06)
Anatola; Dust.tv; IMDb; official website; YouTube

This 2022 short film was presented by Dust in 2022.

A scientist named Miriam has created an AI named Aero, who has apparently been elected leader of Earth, in the year 2220. Aero has supposedly been programmed with the knowledge of all of the world's great historical leaders, but she learns of the leader of an organization that opposes artificial intelligence, named Dr. Richards. He had helped create her, but she has no knowledge of him, so she goes to look for him. He tells her there are millions of stories she hasn't been programmed with, and provides her with the missing data he believes she requires to be a truly great leader.

While I'm pretty sure the short is CGI, the way the characters move looks to me like stop-motion. I guess that's not important, I just felt like mentioning it. It's a work of Afrofuturism, which is something I haven't seen enough of, so it's always nice to see a new example of the genre. Anyway, I think it's a fairly decent concept, with a good message about the importance of things like creativity and multiple perspectives. But I do feel like the story would be better with a deeper dive into just what sorts of perspectives had been intentionally left out of Aero's programming, and why.