The AI Debate Dominates Cannes 2026, With Stars Praising and Condemning Its Use
Soderbergh was openly talking about AI at the festival—a position that isn’t easy to take when there’s still so much backlash. “I was going to have to wear this. I’m going to be expected to speak for them or about this technology,” he says. “That’s the trade off to make the best version of this.” Others may have not been so keen to discuss it, but were forced to do so at press conferences. Jury member Demi Moore kicked it off on the first day, saying, “AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it, I think, is a more valuable path to take.” She incurred plenty of wrath on social media for it. Seth Rogen, in town for the animated film Tangle, went the other direction in his comments: “If your instinct is to use AI and skip that creative process, you shouldn’t be a writer, because you’re not writing.” Guillermo del …
