Just watched “the wild robot”. Dall-E + Iron Giant + Paddington + motherhood. I *loved* the first half, which is an excellent portrayal of a “helpful assistant” AI ending up in a totally out-of-distribution environment which forces it to undergo a kicking-and-screaming socialized -> self-authoring transition.

Second half was a little weaker, but not bad. One thing it kinda hinted at that I’m a fan of are “eddies” in the hero’s journey - places which are stuck in some ignorant state because people don’t want to / structurally can’t return to. Like kindergarten for instance - full of ignorant buffoons. But when one of them leaves and learns something, they don’t come back to kindergarten to spread the wisdom - they don’t want to and the kids actually can’t usefully hear it anyway. So you just abandon them and let some poor teacher and life deal with them - I have no better suggestion! But there are aspects of all adult life that work this same way, and the movie kinda points at one of them.