Overview

• In interviews on July 3–4, Aster said AI’s rapid development has outpaced society’s ability to regulate it.
• He criticized engineers for speaking about AI as a god and leading its followers in a quasi-religious fervor.
• Aster warned that seamless AI-generated imagery is eroding the divide between lived experience and machine-made “imaginal” worlds.
• Referencing Marshall McLuhan’s idea that “man is the sex organ of the machine world,” he questioned whether humanity is extending technology or serving it.
• His upcoming film Eddington employs cyborg characters and pervasive screen imagery to dramatize our growing estrangement from reality.