> “I’m very proud of the industry, actually, for going on strike about it,” Blanchett said, prompting applause. “We’re a very front-facing industry. And if you think about before the strike, people were talking about [AI], but it was not a dinner table, mainstream conversation. I think it’s really important to discuss any new technology. I think we should be very cautious with it, because innovation without imagination is a very, very dangerous thing.”
> “The thing I do feel profoundly, though, about AI is that the thing we fear most and disregard most and put to the back of our mind most is our mortality,” she said. “We know that our time here is finite, and that is something that AI will never understand. It can imitate it, but it doesn’t understand that deep existential dread, and it doesn’t understand the preciousness of each moment in its cellular makeup, not that it necessarily has cellular makeup yet. That is something that can’t be replicated.”
> “When you prize the authentic, then we start to make a parallel lane where AI can exist — and there are many positive things we can get from it — but it is not authentically human. It is inauthentic in that way,” Blanchett said.
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> “I’m very proud of the industry, actually, for going on strike about it,” Blanchett said, prompting applause. “We’re a very front-facing industry. And if you think about before the strike, people were talking about [AI], but it was not a dinner table, mainstream conversation. I think it’s really important to discuss any new technology. I think we should be very cautious with it, because innovation without imagination is a very, very dangerous thing.”
> “The thing I do feel profoundly, though, about AI is that the thing we fear most and disregard most and put to the back of our mind most is our mortality,” she said. “We know that our time here is finite, and that is something that AI will never understand. It can imitate it, but it doesn’t understand that deep existential dread, and it doesn’t understand the preciousness of each moment in its cellular makeup, not that it necessarily has cellular makeup yet. That is something that can’t be replicated.”
> “When you prize the authentic, then we start to make a parallel lane where AI can exist — and there are many positive things we can get from it — but it is not authentically human. It is inauthentic in that way,” Blanchett said.