Producer Kathleen Kennedy calls herself a tech optimist and a traditionalist both. At a conference this week, she said the creative community would embrace AI faster if there was more transparency around how it’s trained and how it’s being deployed.
She herself finds it a useful tool but not dramatically so, yet at least. Emotional storytelling, taste, and education (versus learning), ingredients of great film, are still firmly in the human domain, she said during a Q&A at the Runway AI Summit in NYC. She spoke with Cristóbal Valenzuela, Runway’s co-founder and co-CEO.
“Many in the creative community are inherently suspicious of AI. There’s a lot of people trying to experiment because it’s so accessible. But I don’t know to what extent they’re experimenting as deeply as they might be,” wondered the longtime Lucasfilm president, who stepped down earlier this year to produce. “Many of the people that
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