{"id":654169,"date":"2026-10-14T05:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T05:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:40:16","slug":"boyle-new-film-raises-terrifying-concerns-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654169\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyle: new film raises ‘terrifying’ concerns about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle said his new film raises “terrifying” concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and highlights “the danger journalism is in now”.<\/p>\n

Ink, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, is based on the James Graham play about media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchasing and reinventing The Sun as a tabloid newspaper in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

\n

The biographical drama also centres around his relationship with Larry Lamb, the former northern editor of the Daily Mail who he poached to become The Sun\u2019s new editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

Director and producer Boyle said the film feels “like a contemporary story” despite being set in the 1960s while speaking to the Press Association ahead of its screening at the BFI London Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The 69-year-old said: “You can read it very easily about the attention economy or the clickbait.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s like the very first origins of that bushfire that we\u2019re now right in the middle of.”<\/p>\n

\"Danny
\nDanny Boyle (left) and Guy Pearce attend the gala screening of Ink as part of the BFI’s London film festival at BFI Southbank in central London yesterday. Photo credit: Ian West\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Boyle said the true events the film is based on “taught us how important independent journalism is to a free society”, adding: “It makes you see the danger that journalism is in now.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s being easily replaced by AI, and that is terrifying.<\/p>\n

“It seems an obvious thing to say but it\u2019s also worth dwelling on before we go any further, because we\u2019re hurtling towards enormous change.”<\/p>\n

The filmmaker continued: “We are siloed by tech. You get the news feed that you think you want. It just reflects it back to you.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s the trick of it – the algorithm. We end up in these silos, and we end up separate from each other.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve lost that communal sense, which used to be a lot healthier.”<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connell described the events depicted in the film as a “tipping point” that “changed the way we get our media”.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on how Murdoch and Lamb transformed the journalism sector, the 36-year-old told PA: “These guys were at the brunt of it.<\/p>\n

“I think in the pursuit of all that, certain things are lost.”<\/p>\n

Ink will be released in cinemas in January 2027.<\/p>\n

Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle said his new film raises “terrifying” concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-654169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654169","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=654169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}