Overview

• Douglas received the Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award and expressed embarrassment over America’s responsibility for global unrest
• He condemned rising defense budgets and questioned why wars persist when artificial intelligence promises greater intelligence
• He denounced President Trump’s portrayal of immigrants as criminals and challenged the use of executive power to deport seasonal workers
• He warned that unchecked AI could undermine the art of acting and compared its risks to past failures in social media regulation
• He reflected on nepotism as a second-generation actor and celebrated a family legacy spanning his father Kirk Douglas to his own children’s ambitions