Artificial intelligence has fascinated filmmakers for decades now – Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gave us the iconic evil robot HAL 9000, while Steven Spielberg offered a softer touch with Haley Joel Osment as an uncanny kid cyborg in A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Rapid advancements in technology over the past few years have led to new moral quandaries, particularly around the creation of art. These have been at the centre of the Hollywood strikes, with screenwriters and actors concerned that cheaper synthetic copycats could threaten their work. (The screenwriters’ strike ended at 8am this morning, after an agreement on various issues including establishing regulations on the use of AI.)
