{"id":631913,"date":"2026-09-22T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631913\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:08:09","slug":"tom-cruise-earns-applause-with-six-minute-monologue-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631913\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Earns Applause With Six-Minute Monologue On AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Cruise<\/a> earned spontaneous applause at a BAFTA<\/a> event in London after spending more than six minutes eulogizing about the power of art over AI.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking at a BAFTA: Life in Pictures event, during which Cruise reflected on his screen career, host Edith Bowman posed what she described as the \u201cAI question\u201d about how the technology will disrupt the medium Cruise loves.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Top Gun and Mission: Impossible actor embarked on a monologue about human craft in filmmaking and the potency of the theatrical experience. His answer re-trod plenty of familiar Cruise messages, but his passion prompted an outbreak of applause from an otherwise low-key audience.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is nothing like human,\u201d Cruise responded, before traversing through an answer that touched on camera lens technology and cinemas vs. streaming. Although he did not speak about the downsides of AI directly, he said a blockbuster summer at movie theaters \u2014 including engagement from young audiences \u2014 shows that \u201cpeople want human experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat you put attention on, you give life,\u201d Cruise told the audience of BAFTA members, adding that he does not want to lose the craftspeople who dedicate their careers to creating movies. \u201cPeople wanna see real things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise has previously spoken about artificial intelligence during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA negotiations, during which the actor pushed for protections concerning the technology. He has repeatedly emphasized the importance of people in filmmaking.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the BAFTA event, which was staged to mark his upcoming movie Digger, Cruise spoke about how he got Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu to read him the script over two nights before he committed. The Jerry Maguire actor described the film as \u201cone of the most original and moving\u201d movies he has ever worked on.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic is gearing up for its October 2 theatrical release. It stars Cruise as an oil baron named Digger Rockwell who is charged with saving the day to avert an environmental catastrophe that he caused in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise earned spontaneous applause at a BAFTA event in London after spending more than six minutes eulogizing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,123266,61,60,80,5592],"class_list":["post-631913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bafta","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}