Jodie Foster touched down in Colorado to spend some time with media executive and former Sony boss Michael Lynton, discussing who owns the future of Hollywood during a session at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
As part of their Tuesday conversation, they talked about the forces reshaping the film business and how the pandemic, labor strikes and audience habits have also had an impact. And they also examined the most urgent topic that nearly everyone in town is talking about these days: artificial intelligence.
“If we are able to dominate AI consistently over time, yes, we will make things that reflect us and we can make things better,” Foster told Lynton in front of a live audience. “Will we be able to dominate technology? That particular technology longer than a couple of years? I don’t know.”
Lynton then said he wasn’t sure either before asking Foster whether she believed AI could actually replace writers or actors. “We’re already doing that,” Foster said of actors. “Face-swapping and all the things you guys can do on your iPhone, we can do them even better with real fancy people.”
Foster, an Academy Award-winning actress who has also worked as a filmmaker and producer, then continued the thought by explaining how she often thinks of “movies that are already out there” and how those titles seemingly have been crafted by AI. She used Joseph Kosinski’s F1 starring Brad Pitt as an example.
