Demi Moore Urges Film Industry to Embrace AI at Cannes

Actress Demi Moore called on the film industry to embrace artificial intelligence during a jury press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, arguing that resistance would prove futile.

Speaking alongside fellow jurors including president Park Chanwook and Stellan Skarsgård, Moore addressed concerns about AI's growing role in filmmaking. "I always feel that againstness breeds againstness," she said. "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."

Responding to questions about whether the industry is doing enough to protect itself, Moore expressed uncertainty. "I don't know the answer to that. And so my inclination would be to say probably not," she said. She emphasized that AI could never supplant human creativity. "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. 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...