Demi Moore has called on her peers in the film industry to accept artificial intelligence rather than resist it, warning that fighting the technology is a losing battle. The US actor, speaking at the Cannes film festival where she serves on the jury, said AI is here to stay and the industry should find ways to work with it.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Moore was asked about AI's impact on the industry and whether more regulation is needed. She responded: 'I always feel that against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it I think is a more valuable path to take.'
Moore, who last appeared at Cannes with the body horror film The Substance, acknowledged there are 'beautiful aspects to being able to utilise' AI but stressed it can never replace the human experience or touch. 'The truth is there really isn’t anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical, it comes from the soul,' she said.
The actor added that AI cannot recreate the spirit and creativity of human artists. 'It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us who creates every day. And that they can never recreate through something that is technical,' she said.
Elsewhere in the conference, jury chair Park Chan-wook, the South Korean film-maker, argued that politics and art should not be divided, while Moore said she hoped speaking freely about politics would not damage film promotion. UK screenwriter Paul Laverty criticised Hollywood for 'blacklisting' actors who had spoken out in support of Gaza, citing Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo.
