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Alex Garland

Writer-Director

Novelist turned filmmaker behind Ex Machina, Annihilation, Devs, and Civil War. He treats generative AI as an unstoppable tide and says the thing worth fearing is not the technology but the unaccountable tech executives deploying it.

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Nuanced

Andrew Stanton

Filmmaker

The Pixar director of Finding Nemo, WALL-E and Toy Story 5. He says machine learning has been in Pixar’s toolset since the beginning but only ever to sharpen the tools — “I have no interest in doing anything but working smarter, faster with another artist.”

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Baz Luhrmann

Filmmaker

Australian director of Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, and Elvis. He curated a 2023 exhibition made with the AI robot artist Ai-Da, says he is “not scared of AI as a creative” and used it in Elvis — while warning of nefarious uses and calling for new rules and governance.

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Nuanced

Christopher McQuarrie

Filmmaker and screenwriter

The Oscar-winning writer of The Usual Suspects and director of four Mission: Impossible films, who chose a rogue AI as the franchise’s final villain years before ChatGPT. Watching the technology catch up to his screenplay, he admitted he was “a little freaked out.”

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Curry Barker

Horror filmmaker and YouTuber

The YouTube sketch comedian turned horror director whose $800 short Milk & Serial and sub-$1m feature Obsession made him the face of a Gen Z filmmaking wave. He says he is “scared of AI for sure” — while betting it will not replace human-made films as fast as people think.

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Nuanced

Daniel Kwan

Filmmaker

Half of the Oscar-winning duo Daniels, behind Everything Everywhere All at Once. He spent three years producing The AI Doc, co-founded the Creators Coalition on AI, and says he is terrified of the technology while refusing to preach against using it.

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Nuanced

Daniel Scheinert

Filmmaker

Half of the Oscar-winning directing duo Daniels, behind Everything Everywhere All at Once. He spent 2023 publicly correcting headlines that credited AI for his film’s handmade visual effects, and tells filmmakers to interrogate who actually profits when they reach for the tool.

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Nuanced

Hirohiko Araki

Manga Artist

Creator of the long-running manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, who in a 2024 book on writing villains warned that AI would let con artists run rampant and recounted mistaking an AI forgery for his own hand — while saying in the same book that he wants digital tools to keep developing.

#Animator#Artist

Nuanced

Jared Hess

Director

Director of Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and A Minecraft Movie. He kept generative AI out of the biggest video-game adaptation ever made, then signed Hollywood’s Creators Coalition on AI — a letter that accepts the technology but demands guardrails.

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Nuanced

Michael Mann

Director

Director of Heat, Thief, The Insider and Collateral, and a lifelong early adopter of new production technology. He says he may use AI for aging and de-aging on Heat 2 — but only where the drama demands it, and only if a human still acts, writes and directs the performance.

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Robert Eggers

Director

Writer-director of The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman and Nosferatu, obsessive about period authenticity and practical effects. Asked about AI, he endorsed Guillermo del Toro’s “semi-compelling screensavers” verdict and said its best use is inspiring humans to do more human things.

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Sean Baker

Filmmaker

Writer-director of Anora, The Florida Project, and Tangerine, and the only person to win four Oscars for a single film. He draws a hard line at AI resurrecting dead stars or eliminating below-the-line crews — while conceding it can help with pre-viz and production design.

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Anti-AI9.5anti

Adam McKay

Filmmaker

Oscar-winning writer-director of The Big Short, Vice and Don’t Look Up, and one of Hollywood’s loudest anti-AI voices. He posts a near-daily boycott case against generative AI, runs a climate studio with a no-AI policy, and calls the technology “the ultimate scab.”

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Anti-AI4.3anti

Alex Hirsch

Animator & Show Creator

Creator, writer, and voice of Disney’s Gravity Falls, who reacted with viral scorn on learning his scripts had been scraped to train AI — joking about encoding a virus into a screenplay — and has repeatedly mocked the industry’s embrace of generative tools.

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Anti-AI6.3anti

Ashly Burch

Voice Actor & Writer

Acclaimed voice actor — Aloy in Horizon, Chloe in Life is Strange — and Emmy-nominated writer who has become a leading voice in the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, demanding consent and compensation before any AI replica of a performer is made.

#Video Games#Actor

Anti-AI4.7anti

Boichi

Manga Artist

South Korean–born manga artist behind Sun-Ken Rock and the hit series Dr. Stone, who stopped posting his art on X in protest after the platform added an AI image-editing tool, saying he cannot accept his work being exploited without consent.

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Anti-AI7.3anti

Celine Song

Filmmaker and Playwright

Korean-Canadian writer-director of Past Lives and Materialists. On a Marrakech jury stage in November 2025 she borrowed Guillermo del Toro’s two-word verdict on AI and spent several minutes explaining why she meant it — that the technology is “colonizing our minds” and encroaching on what makes living worth doing.

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Daisuke Moriyama

Manga Artist

Manga artist known for Chrono Crusade and World Embryo, who deleted years of his artwork from X in 2025 after the platform added an AI image-editing feature, saying he had lost any desire to leave his work there.

#Animator#Artist

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David Gaider

Game Writer & Narrative Designer

Co-creator and former lead writer of BioWare’s Dragon Age series, now an independent studio founder, who has called generative AI in game development a “virulent plague” and warned it will hollow out the entry-level jobs that train the next generation of developers.

#Video Games#Entertainment

Anti-AI5.0anti

Edgar Wright

Filmmaker

English director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver, and the 2025 remake of The Running Man — a film built around deepfakes and an AI-run game show. He kept generative AI out of the production and sums up his position in two words: hire humans.

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Gina Prince-Bythewood

Director

Director of Love & Basketball, The Old Guard, and The Woman King. Asked by Empire for her take on AI, she gave a twelve-word verdict: it is not creative, it only takes from other people’s creativity.

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Anti-AI6.3anti

Judd Apatow

Filmmaker and Comedy Producer

Director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up and the producer behind two decades of American comedy. He signed the 2025 Hollywood letter opposing AI copyright exemptions and describes generative AI as factory logic: scraped, generic, and missing a point of view.

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Anti-AI6.4anti

Kate Wagner

Architecture critic, creator of McMansion Hell

The architecture critic behind McMansion Hell dismantled the idea that AI would “disrupt” architecture, arguing its images are conservative, derivative, and — because AI has no body and no stake in place — the “death of everything that makes architecture interesting.”

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Anti-AI6.6anti

Mark Alan Hewitt

Architect, historian, and author

The American architect and historian issued one of the profession’s bluntest anti-AI manifestos, vowing to “take to the barricades” against generative design and arguing that experienced human designers cannot be matched by an algorithm.

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Anti-AI7.8anti

Paul Feig

Director

Creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, Spy, and The Housemaid. He calls generative AI “technology literally none of us asked for” and signed the Human Artistry Campaign’s anti-training-theft letter.

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