Guillermo del Toro

It did and it didn't.

It didn't in the sense that my concern is not artificial intelligence but natural stupidity.

I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features.

But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor.

be similar in some ways to the tech bros.

He's kind of blind, creating something without considering the consequences.

And I think we have to take a pause and consider where we're going.

If you have to teach an AI to think in ones and zeros, oh my God, I would love for a generation to get raising kids right one time, one time.

In the entire history of mankind, there hasn't been a single generation that was raised right all across the globe.

And I think that's our biggest failure in a way.

Ones and zeros don't get the alchemy

that you get with emotion and experience.

You get the information, but you don't get the alchemy of emotion, spirituality, and feeling.

I'm not saying it's impossible to replicate, but we have it readily available with the next generation of children.

And that's why the painful thing that Jacob Elordi and Victor enact is a father and son relationship that is very relatable in the film, very relatable and very moving by the end.

AI, particularly generative AI, is I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested.

I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak.

I really don't.

The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, what is your stance on AI?

My answer was very short.