Ep 16: You Should be Using AI to Enhance Your Creative Work

Jessie Hughes from Leonardo.Ai shares the ways generative AI will be game-changing to the screen industry, and how you can upskill

Jun 23, 2025

Our sixteenth episode of We Interrupt This Broadcast is live!
Listen to Episode 16 on Spotify, YouTube or Apple Podcasts.

In this episode we talk to Jessie Hughes, Senior Creative Technologist at Leonardo.Ai. Jessie is an internationally-recognised new media artist, technologist, scholar and screenwriter, her works having exhibited most notably at Sundance, SXSW, Cannes and the Tate Modern. In her role at Leonardo.Ai, she has been instrumental in leading global education, evangelism, community engagement, and industry-wide adoption for one of the world’s fastest-growing generative AI platforms.

Jessie talks about the ways generative AI can play a role in the future of the screen industry, and why she’s particularly excited for emerging creatives and the Australian screen industry.

Listen to this episode if you are interested in:

The ways generative AI is being used on current productions
Why Australia is leading the way with AI from a technology perspective
How creative experience is the key to creating great AI content
Why collaboration still leads to better outcomes
The ways democratisation of creativity allows more diverse voices to be heard
What you should do if you want to upskill with AI tools

Bonus: Pair this episode with an AI Cheat Sheet put together by Scott Dickson from Bold Digital Media.

The cheat sheet is a look at a variety of AI tools that may help speed up tasks, reduce costs, and unlock new creative possibilities across different points of the production process.
https://www.bolddigitalmedia.com.au/aitoolspdf

Scott Dickson works with creative teams to explore practical ways AI tools can support production workflows without giving up any creativity.

Follow his work:
www.linkedin.com/in/thatscottdickson
bolddigitalmedia.com.au

Follow Jessie and her work:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessie-hughes-050138b1

Leonardo.ai: https://leonardo.ai/

Announcement: Google’s Veo 3 on Leonardo.Ai

Leonardo.Ai Training:

Leonardo Learn

Creating Detailed Concept Designs for Presentations

Creating Cinematic Storyboards with AI

Creating Concept Art and Posters for Your Film

How to Ideate with Flow State