The Human Voice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
I am, at heart, an old-fashioned romantic who still holds onto the worldview I grew up with. Yet the world I knew is gone. Artificial intelligence has arrived like a fissure across the fabric of society.AI is not a new idea. It has lived in our imagination for nearly a century. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis envisioned a society ruled by machines. Star Trek introduced “the ultimate computer.” Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gave us HAL, the dispassionate voice of machine logic. For decades, AI haunted our cultural consciousness. Today it is no longer speculation but reality. As a film and television producer, I can already imagine a future where a director creates an entire project with AI and no crew at all. Filmmaking has always been a collective art, where writers, actors, cinematographers, designers, editors, and countless craftspeople work in harmony to transform words into images. That collaboration has been central to storytelling. Now AI threatens to upend it. Curious, I...
