Over her more than four decades in in the film business, Kathleen Kennedy has been at the vanguard of tech, whether via her work on the Star Wars universe or all those Steven Spielberg ones. Jurassic Park alone makes you a pioneer.
You might expect the uber-veteran, then, to be similarly enthused about AI in filmmaking. But Kennedy sounded a more skeptical note Tuesday — even while speaking to an AI founder at an event he hosted.
“Taste is so fundamental to the process of creating things,” she said, in an on-stage conversation with Runway co-funder Cristóbal Valenzuela as part of an AI summit that the New York-based startup hosted in Manhattan Tuesday. “It’s life experiences; it’s educational. The best directors of films and photography came out of art, they studied art,” she said. She suggested AI-driven films by definition couldn’t have that experience.
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