AI IS on the tip of everyone’s tongues. Every room this writer enters seems to be discussing whether AI use is ethical. Where one side is arguing that AI is democratising art, the others tell us that AI is the reason we are going through a water crisis. Whether it truly democratises art or not is debatable. 

What this writer finds interesting is how tech enables art. One of the only art forms that is truly tech-enabled is filmmaking. We’d been painting, writing, and singing long before we developed technology to do it. But the birth of filmmaking was a technological advancement in itself. “The Lumière brothers were inventors before they were artistes,” says Dipankar Mukherjee, co-founder and CEO of Studio Blo, which is an AI-native film studio.