Academy Award-winning director James Cameron has joined the board of directors of the artificial intelligence company Stability AI after sounding the alarm about the technology last year.
“I just don’t personally believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said — about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality — and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it,” Cameron said during an interview in 2023, as The Daily Wire previously reported.
“You got to follow the money. Who’s building these things? They’re either building it to dominate marketing shares, so you’re teaching it greed, or you’re building it for defensive purposes, so you’re teaching it paranoia. I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger,” he said at the time, adding that he “warned” society with his film released 40 years ago, “The Terminator.”
“I warned you guys in 1984! And you didn’t listen,” Cameron said of his film about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world.
Now Cameron is promoting the use of AI, at least the version that Stability AI is selling.
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Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju celebrated the new member of the board, saying, “James Cameron lives in the future and waits for the rest of us to catch up.”
“Stability AI’s mission is to transform visual media for the next century by giving creators a full stack AI pipeline to bring their ideas to life,” he continued. “We have an unmatched advantage to achieve this goal with a technological and creative visionary like James at the highest levels of our company. This is not only a monumental statement for Stability AI, but the AI industry overall. The next frontier in visual media will be forged by a true fusion of artist and technology and Stability AI is leading the charge.”
Stability AI has raised $233 million in five rounds and has a valuation close to $1 billion, per Deadline.
The use of AI has been a hot topic of conversation over the past couple of years and was a major issue during the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year.
