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Ari Aster Warns AI Race Is Unstoppable and Treated as a God

Senate action to lift a decade-long AI regulation preemption has raised alarm just weeks before the release of his film Eddington that dramatizes humanity’s fusion with machine realities.

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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.