ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Inside Hollywood’s AI Freak-Out, Featuring Darren Aronofsky, Natasha Lyonne, Tilly Norwood, and a Lot of Nervous Anonymous Sources

Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology, bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. But the players are having an incredibly hard time being honest about it with one another.
PIXEL PLAYS Vanity Fair worked with an AI company to create three posters from three distinct eras for an imagined film...
PIXEL PLAYS: Vanity Fair worked with an AI company to create three posters, from three distinct eras, for an imagined film we titled The Elephant in the Room.AI Imagery By: Shadowrunner Industries.

In early October the director Timur Bekmambetov, known for films like Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, or perhaps Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, hosted a dinner party to talk about what might as well be a sci-fi logline and the only thing anyone in Hollywood can talk about at all: AI.

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