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Guillermo del Toro Wins BFI Fellowship, Warns AI Threat.

6/16/2026

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Guillermo del Toro accepted the British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship at a Hollywood BFI America dinner.
He warned that artificial intelligence threatens cinema, calling it “natural stupidity.”
He pledged to donate one-third of his papers to BFI archive and will teach Alfred Hitchcock classes.
BFI works with industry to shape policy, maintains a film collection, and its America fundraiser will support the Film on Film Festival in London in June.

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Guillermo del Toro accepted the British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship at a Hollywood BFI America dinner.
He warned that artificial intelligence threatens cinema, calling it “natural stupidity.”
He pledged to donate one-third of his papers to BFI archive and will teach Alfred Hitchcock classes.
BFI works with industry to shape policy, maintains a film collection, and its America fundraiser will support the Film on Film Festival in London in June.