George Lucas on the horse and buggy

For A Rabbit’s Foot, Andy Hazel interviewed Star Wars creator George Lucas, mostly about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. But towards the end, there is a question of generative AI in movies, because of course:

“Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies,” he says. “It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’ There’s nothing you can do about it,” he says, raising his hands. “That’s progress, it’s the future.”

I wonder if his opinion would change if he were still making movies.