Firstpost at IFFI 2025 | Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur on Artificial Intelligence: 'Tom Cruise, Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor have copyrighted themselves and...'

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur graced the 56th IFFI in Goa where the discussion happened around Artificial Intelligence and how it seems to have taken over the entertainment landscape. And the maestro didn’t mince words even once while sharing his opinion on it.

The filmmaker said, “Most of the actors I know have been dealing with their lawyers and copyrighting themselves. Tom Cruise, Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor have copyrighted themselves. In the new world of AI, you need to do that.”

He added, “AI cannot be human. AI is artificial intelligence. We don’t even know where intelligence resides. The only time that AI can take over humanity is if we have so much inertia that we become predictable.”

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The limitations of AI

Shekhar Kapur said, “In AI, we still don’t know how to create close-ups, and there’s a very specific reason: we have something that science has not worked out yet – a relationship between pupils.”

The filmmaker continued saying, “Is it getting shorter and shorter because we are becoming as human beings having shorter attention spans? Or is it getting shorter because films are getting shorter? Storytelling never changes. Storytelling is the way we communicate with each other. Everything is a story.”