Edward Saatchi, CEO of Amazon-backed startup Fable, sees AI as “possibly the end of human creativity,” at least as an exclusive phenomenon. And no, he doesn’t believe that’s a bad thing.

The exec made the provocative comments on CNBC on Friday in an interview on Squawk Box (watch the full segment above). The appearance was timed to the news that Fable’s interactive platform Showrunner has embarked on a “non-commercial, academic” initiative to rescue lost footage from 1942 Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons .

“What’s coming is a world where we’re not the only creative species,” Saatchi said, “and that we will enjoy entertainment created by AIs. So, we wanted to train our AI on the greatest storyteller of the past 200 years, Orson Welles.”

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