Unlike a lot of Hollywood , “Taxi Driver” scribe Paul Schrader is embracing artificial intelligence, saying he has “the perfect script” for what he believes is the imminent inaugural “AI feature.”

The 79-year-old screenwriter’s proclamation might ring bleak to come, but to Schrader, AI is not a replacement for people, “it’s just a tool” — albeit an inevitable one.

“Movies are going to be less and less two-dimensional. And also, I think they’re going to be more and more AI. I think we’re only two years away from the first AI feature ,” Schrader told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “I was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, ‘You know, this would be the perfect script to do all AI.”

Asked if he’s ready to fully accept the technology in filmmaking,

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