Parasite Director Bong Joon Ho, Wednesday's Jenna Ortega Highlight Dangers Of AI: Computer Has No Soul

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the Marrakech Film Festival kicked off on November 28, the jury led by Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho took part in a press conference. They were mostly united in calling out the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world. Wednesday star Jenna Ortega felt the constant use of AI was like opening a Pandora's box, while Bong Joon Ho had a more drastic answer.

Bong Joon Ho, Jenna Ortega share thoughts on dangers of AI

At the Moroccan film festival, the jury was posed a question on AI. Ortega began by saying that mankind "just always take things too far and I think it’s very easy to be terrified — I know I am — of deep uncertainty. It kind of feels like we’ve opened Pandora’s box in a way."

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She felt that audiences need to be deprived of something in order to appreciate something again. The actress added, "In these difficult and confusing times, oftentimes it pushes the artist to speak out more, to do more, for there to be this new awakening and passion and protection and I want to assume and hope that that’s the case. But there’s certain things that AI just isn’t able to replicate. There’s beauty in difficulty and there’s beauty in mistakes, and a computer can’t do that. A computer has no soul.”ALSO READ: Guillermo Del Toro Says His Film Frankenstein Is Not A Warning About AI: I'm Afraid Of Natural StupidityParasite director Bong, who agreed with Ortega, suggested more drastic measures. He laughed and said, "My personal answer is I’m going to organize a military squad where their mission is to destroy AI all over the world.”The rest of the jury included Furiosa star Anya Taylor-Joy, Materialists director Celine Song, Titane filmmaker Julia Ducournau, Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, Moroccan filmmaker Hakim Belabbes and Iranian-American actor-director Payman Maadi. Song also chimed in and stated, "To quote Guillermo del Toro, who’s going to be here at this festival soon, fuck AI. [It is] completely destroying our planet [and] colonising our mind and the way that we encounter images, the way we encounter sound.”