WHISPERS: An Interactive AI Thriller Series

Whispers is an animated, episodic interactive AI thriller series in which the audience is not a spectator but a participant in the story itself. Each episode follows Detective Marcus Kent, a man who hears whispers that help him solve crimes. These whispers are, in fact, the live audience. Dialog, scenes, and story beats are written and rendered in near real time by AI operating within a strict narrative framework, so that the audience can shape a murder investigation as it unfolds. The work is an experiment in distributed narrative agency, where authorship is continuously negotiated between a crowd, a character, and the humans who built and voice the world. Whispers is currently being shown in theaters across the US. It was created by three-time Emmy winner Bernie Su, and is a finalist for the 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media.