This is just after unions representing Hollywood actors and writers went on strike for protections against AI taking their jobs. Ben Affleck said that neither screenwriters nor actors should be worried about AI because, as of the present, it cannot do either job today, nor most likely for a really long period of time.

"Movies will be one of the last things—if everything gets replaced—to be replaced by AI," said Affleck during an onstage interview with CNBC last week. "AI can write you an excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan; it cannot write you Shakespeare."

Affleck, who co-owns a film studio with Matt Damon now, seems to understand AI decently enough at times, providing a very skeleton-level definition of what transformer architectures are. He is surprisingly optimistic when describing the impact AI could have on the film industry, claiming it may even create more work for actors and screenwriters. Where the visual effects business may be in trouble, according to Affleck.