Steven Spielberg On “Where I Draw The Line” With AI: “There Is No Substitute For The Soul”

As the discourse around artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood continues to buzz, Steven Spielberg recently shared his two cents.

The 3x Oscar winner noted that he’s “withholding judgment on AI” until he has a better understanding of how it’s being used, but he’s “not willing to substitute” an AI tool for a creative role usually filled by humans.

“Where I don’t love AI is where it takes a position, or there’s an empty chair at a writer’s table,” he explained on the IMO podcast. “There’s six writers, and there’s an empty chair, and there’s a computer in front of the empty chair, and it is the seventh writer. I’m not willing to substitute, because I don’t really believe in sentience. I don’t believe there is any substitute for the soul. I don’t think that is an algorithm that is inventible.”

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