The Alchemy of Artificial Intelligence
July 13th, 2026‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ Arthur C. Clarke
The AI genie is out of the bottle, and already impacting creative industries like cinema. Obviously, as a studio who still employ traditional artists and sculptors, Alchemy have also had to decide on how to interact with such technological advances. Particularly when many of their competitors are increasingly using them to cut corners, or even dispense with their creative teams completely. We asked Alchemy’s co-founder and chairman Geoff Kayson for his take on the matter. ‘I am both disturbed and saddened by the relentless – and furtive – takeover of all traditional forms of human creativity, skill, and individual expression by digital technologies’ sighed Geoff. ‘The now ubiquitous use of computer generated art and AI design, coupled with 3D printing technology and automated production is killing originality and reducing our world to just cloned concepts.’
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