The industry-wide AI conversation is still happening.

Affleck thinks that AI technology could create a new source of revenue for studios, potentially replacing lost DVD sales that he says once provided a large chunk of industry revenue but dropped dramatically over the past decade due to the rise of streaming video services.

Until very recently, the threat of AI seemed to belong to a distant future when something akin to Skynet would become self-aware and we'd all find ourselves in some sort of post-a