Demi Moore has said the film industry cannot resist the rise of artificial intelligence, warning that fighting the technology is a battle that will be lost. The US actor, a member of the Cannes film festival jury, spoke during a press conference on Tuesday about AI's impact on the industry and the need for regulation.
“AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose,” Moore said. “So to find ways in which we can work with it I think is a more valuable path to take.” She added that she was uncertain whether enough was being done to protect the industry, saying “probably not”.
Moore, who last attended Cannes with the body horror film The Substance, acknowledged there were “beautiful aspects” to using AI but stressed it could never replace human experience. “What it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical, it comes from the soul,” she said.
Elsewhere in the conference, jury chair Park Chan-wook said politics and art should not be divided, while UK screenwriter Paul Laverty criticised Hollywood for “blacklisting” actors who supported Gaza. Moore added that censoring oneself would “shut down the core of our creativity”.
