Guillermo del Toro is sharing his thoughts on his latest movie.
The 60-year-old filmmaker said that Frankenstein is not a metaphor for AI and its recent rise in popularity.
At a press conference for the films release on Saturday (August 30), Guillermo spoke about the movie, which stars Jacob Elordi as the iconic creature brought to life by Victor Frankenstein.
According to Guillermo, he didn’t intend for his movie to be a metaphor for AI. Instead, he explained how he hoped that making the movie would help people to be more understanding of what others are going through and connect with each other better. Rather than AI, Guillermo said that Frankenstein is about humanity.
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“It’s not intended as a metaphor for that,” Guillermo said at the press conference on Frankenstein being about the rise of AI.
“We live in a time of terror and intimidation, certainly. And there’s no more urgent task than to remain, in a time where everything is pushing towards a bipolar, understanding of our humanity. The movie tries to show imperfect characters and the right we have to remain imperfect, and the right we have to understand each other under the most oppressive circumstances,” the filmmaker continued.
Guillermo said that something worries him more than AI, joking, “I’m not afraid of artificial intelligence. I’m afraid of natural stupidity.”
