{"id":1633666,"date":"2026-07-14T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3H3pdDWLsdB2ivptBcETmS"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:58:00","slug":"george-lucas-says-rejecting-ai-is-like-rejecting-cars-in-favour-of-horses-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it-its-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/george-lucas-says-rejecting-ai-is-like-rejecting-cars-in-favour-of-horses-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it-its-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: ‘There’s nothing you can do about it\u2026 it’s the future’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just over a year after Lucasfilm, the production company bearing his name, declared creative bankruptcy<\/a> with a risible display of AI-generated ‘aliens,’ George Lucas has offered his take on the tech. It’s, ah, well it’s not great.<\/p>\n

In a chat with A Rabbit’s Foot<\/a> (via Kotaku<\/a>), Lucas alighted on the topic of other directors’ hostility to new (for a certain definition of ‘new’) tech. “I have a lot of friends who are on the Film Foundation with me, that’s dedicated to saving old movies, and some of them say ‘I’ll never do digital. Lawrence of Arabia was shot with film.'” Lucas thinks that’s a bit daft: “It’s the moving image. That’s what it is. It’s not a technology, it’s an idea.”<\/p>\n

Lucas goes on to apply this philosophy to AI and the backlash against it. “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies. 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.'”<\/p>\n

And then, Lucas says the same thing you’ve heard from countless AI boosters: “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”<\/p>\n

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