My Grandma Can’t Get Automated : Story Telling Using AI
9 – 12
April 2026
Art, STEM & Innovation
21 Days
About Project
My Grandma Can’t Get Automated : Story Telling Using AI invites students in grades 9–12 to explore one of the most urgent creative questions of current times: can artificial intelligence (AI) truly tell a human story? Inspired by the participatory storytelling model, students will interview a grandparent, elder, neighbour, or loved one and capture their experiences, memories, and views in a world increasingly shaped by AI. Using AI as a creative collaborator, they will shape that conversation into a 2–3 minute documentary film under the theme “My Grandma Can’t Get Automated.” The most compelling films will be considered for community screenings and may be featured in an upcoming documentary by filmmaker and digital storytelling pioneer Siok Siok Tan.
Expert Profile
Siok Siok Tan is a filmmaker and innovator whose work explores the nexus of humanity, social change, and technology. Her documentary work has been featured by media around the world, from CNN and The Guardian to the Times of India and the People’s Daily.Her book AI for Humanity (Wiley, 2024) topped Amazon’s technology bestseller list and is held in close to 500 universities across 30 countries. Her current project, DeepHumanity.AI, is a global multi-modal experiment capturing our collective hopes and fears of AI.
Notable works include Beijing: City in Time, an interdisciplinary collaboration that won China’s Lu Xun Literary Prize (2018), one of the country’s most prestigious literary honours. and Twittamentary, which pioneered crowdsourced documentary filmmaking. A former Executive Producer at Discovery Channel Asia, her films earned multiple nominations at the Asian TV Awards and Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards.
In 2025, she was named a SG Digital Leader by Singapore’s IMDA and one of SG100 Women in Tech. She is completing a Master’s in AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge.
