SPIELBERG: SOULLESS AI SHOULD NEVER HAVE FINAL SAY IN FILM-MAKING.

He admitted, however, that he does envision a future where AI could help “save us a lot of legwork” by undertaking tasks such as scouting locations.

But the Jurassic Park director said he never wanted it to take things a step further and advise on how to make movies.

“Don’t tell me how to write my dialogue for this character,” he said, adding: “Don’t tell me where the camera has to go. And also, don’t tell me what the set should look like, unless AI is simply a tool in a large tool chest of the production designer.

“Use AI as a tool, but do not use AI as the final word on anything creative. That’s where I draw the line.”

That’s nice, but I guarantee AI is already being used to design sets and costumes. There was an article in Medium two and a half years ago that AI was being used to storyboard movies and TV shows. In late 2024, The Ankler explored how AI storyboards are changing how scripts are pitched. While a superstar director like Spielberg has final say on how his shots are blocked, all the way to the final cut of his movie, so many preproduction choices are being made by AI that Hollywood is likely becoming just about as cybernetic in the integration of humans and technology as the Six Million Dollar Man was in the 1970s.