Surprise, surprise, the “we gladly welcome our new AI overlords” guys have hired an AI expert for their production company. Joe and Anthony Russo are perhaps the most high-profile Hollywood creatives to embrace an artificially intelligent future, so it’s more surprising that they hadn’t already hired somebody for this position. Anyway, AGBO announced today that it has hiredHughes is described as a leader in algorithms, machine learning, and AI.
Obviously, AI partnerships are the way the winds are blowing in Hollywood—at least for now—but the Russos have been particularly bullish that artificial intelligence is on the board of a few AI companies” and speculated that a fully AI movie was only a couple years away. Not long after those remarks, AI became a major sticking point of the 2023 Hollywood strikes—but in the Russo philosophy, the change is coming “whether we want it or not,” so might as well embrace it, and apparently even spearhead it.