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US Producers Option Hugo-Nominated “I AM AI” for Film

6/19/2026

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United States producers have optioned Ai Jiang’s Hugo-Award-nominated novelette “I AM AI” for a feature film.
Actor-producer Matthias Schweighöfer and producer Sascha Rosemann are attached to develop the adaptation.
Jiang says the story draws on her ghost-writing experience and warns of burnout and toxic productivity.
Shortwave Publishing will include the novelette in Simon & Schuster’s 2027 anthology “Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost.”

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Story summary

United States producers have optioned Ai Jiang’s Hugo-Award-nominated novelette “I AM AI” for a feature film.
Actor-producer Matthias Schweighöfer and producer Sascha Rosemann are attached to develop the adaptation.
Jiang says the story draws on her ghost-writing experience and warns of burnout and toxic productivity.
Shortwave Publishing will include the novelette in Simon & Schuster’s 2027 anthology “Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost.”