Emmy Winner Fred Graver: AI Can Help You Write, But Can't Give You Something to Say
every · x · 2026-10-29
On The Every Podcast, Emmy-winning writer/producer Fred Graver argues AI can assist much of the creative process but can't give you something to say. Key points: every writer needs a "who I am as a writer" document; he's built a cast of AI collaborators into his writers' room; the human quirks that make characters endearing are what AI can't supply. The episode also covers his path from National Lampoon and Letterman to Twitter and Microsoft, codifying studio culture into an AI core, three phases of making entertainment with AI, and his daily workflow across Claude, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM.
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