Tom Cruise, Whose Stunts Are Real, Says AI Cannot Replace the Experience of Real Stunts

Tom Cruise stated that artificial intelligence cannot replace the tactile and physiological reality of performing dangerous stunts in person. He stated this at a press event. The film he was promoting contains stunts he personally performed. The statement is true. It is also useful to the marketing function.

The pattern is old. A person states a fact that benefits them commercially. The fact is still a fact. The commercial benefit does not make the fact false. This is filed as one item that is both things simultaneously. Most organizations are not structured to hold both things in the same box.

The film will succeed or fail. Either way, Cruise performed actual stunts. That part is not cinema. That part happened.