Petr Salaba is a documentary filmmaker and science communicator focused on AI alignment.

His most recent published work are Youtube video essays for the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast.

He is currently workingo on two short project with Foresight Institute to be released in mid August.

Other projects include Scalespace (based on original idea and consultations with Jan Kulveit) – an AI-generated film about evolution of communication and cooperation in biological, cultural and digital systems in logarithmic perspective (premiered at IDFF Ji.hlava 2023), and Anamnesis – an interactive chatbot simulation testing human empathy toward digital suffering (CPH:DOX 2024).

Petr graduated from the Department of Documentary Film at Prague’s Film Academy. Besides filmmaking, he lectures and consults on generative AI in audiovisual industry. His interdisciplinary interests extend to embodied cognition, ethology and body language based communication with horses.