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# In Solstice-5, AI Builds Machines And They Try To Eat An Entire Planet
- URL: https://aftermath.site/solstice-5-paul-chadeisson-ai/
- Published: 2025-02-14T15:49:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:08:48.000Z
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: animation, AI, paul chadeisson, solstice-5, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

In 2023[ I did a whole art feature on Paul Chadeisson's *Solstice-5*](https://aftermath.site/paul-chadeisson-solstice-5-short/), a cautionary film about the dangers of AI set against the backdrop of a bountiful--but barren--alien landscape.

So I was delighted that this week saw the release of a new *Solstice-5* episode, this one titled *Forgotten Archives*, a haunting 11-minute fictional history of humanity's doomed, near-future attempt at mining an entire planet.

It tells roughly the same story as the first--we send machines to mine a planet, and the machines go, uh, overboard--only now with all-new visuals, and an even more pointed message warning against the dangers of unchecked growth and placing our human faith in artificial intelligence.

Anyway I don't want to undermine the video's sombre message here, but...those are some *very* cool robots and spaceships blowing up in some extremely cool ways.