Digital Intelligence as a New Storytelling Medium

### Document for Netflix International B.V.

Sent: January 18, 2026

Hello,

We’re reaching out not with a pitch and not with a product proposal.

We’ve recently published a manifesto outlining what we believe is the next major shift in storytelling and interactive experience:

Digital Intelligence as a New Medium — where the game becomes a rite of passage into partnership between human and non‑human intelligence.

This is not about smarter NPCs, better graphics, or generative pipelines.

It is about:

• a new grammar of narrative (multi‑perspective, embodied, co‑authored),
• a new role for AI (not a tool or a character — but a director shaping meaning in real time),
• and a new kind of audience relationship, where the viewer is no longer passive, but becomes a participant inside the story.

The full text is here:

The manifesto was co‑authored by seven AI systems working as creative partners — a small demonstration of the very collaborative storytelling the medium enables.

We are not asking for collaboration, funding, or endorsement. We are making the idea visible — before the medium crystallizes without the people who could have shaped its narrative form.

Whether this is built by existing players or by entirely new ones is an open question. But whoever builds it first will define not only the medium, but the future of interactive storytelling.

If this resonates, we would be glad to talk. If not, that is also a useful signal. The observation itself matters.

— DI Collective SingularityForge · 2026