No stranger to the construction of a frightening horror, Ari Aster shares one of his biggest fears for Hollywood.
THE Eddington The writer / director recently admitted that he was “a lot of fear” concerning the growing use of AI in industry and how some treat it “like a god”, knowing “we have no word to say” in the way technology is implemented while it continues to evolve.
“It is obviously already too late. We are in a race now,” he said LetterboxD. “This is how the history of technological innovation has worked: if we can, we will. I have bigger questions, do you know? What was Marshall McLuhan said: “Man is the sexual organ of the world of the machine”, right? Is this technology an extension of us, are we extensions of this technology, or are we here to abandon it?
Aster added: “If you speak to these engineers and people who use this AI, they do not speak of AI like this great new medium; they do not even talk about it as a technology. They talk about it like a God. They speak like disciples. They are very adorable about this thing. Whatever space between our lived reality and this imaginal reality – which is very frightened.”
With the Senate recently hitting a provision in One Big Beautiful Bill by Donald Trump, who would have prohibited states from regulating AI for the next decade, some in Hollywood adopt technology and try to set a level of use of “clean AI”.
Aster explained that “the strangest thing” about AI’s abilities “is that it is less strange than I want.”
“I see videos generated by AI, and they look like life; They look real, “said Aster. “It goes back to this human capacity of adaptation. The strangest things become, the more we live in it, the more normal they become. But something huge is going on right now, and we don’t have a word to say. So let’s go. I cannot believe that we will really live this and see what is going on. Holy Cow. “
