Spielberg on what he'd change about A.I. Artificial Intelligence

While promoting Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg revisited his 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence and its place in a moment when artificial intelligence feels increasingly unavoidable. He described the movie succinctly: "A.I. was really about sentient robotics," and acknowledged that his feelings about the film reflect both engagement with and rejection of how AI exists today.

The project itself began with Stanley Kubrick, who commissioned Brian Aldiss to adapt his 1969 short story "Super Toys Last All Summer Long" and passed through several writers before shelving it. After Jurassic Park pushed special effects forward in 1993, Kubrick reconsidered and eventually handed the project to Spielberg; the two collaborators exchanged ideas for years, and Kubrick’s death in 1999 left Spielberg to finish the film in 2000.

The finished movie blends Kubrick’s austere themes with Spielberg’s more humanist instincts.

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