In the programme
I’M AN ACTOR. I WAS SUPPOSED TO HATE AI.
Why I Chose to Embrace It Instead
An actor explains why he did not take the side he was expected to take. Acting is today one of the professions defending itself most loudly against generative AI, and it has hard reasons: the scan, the licence, a likeness that starts working without you. This talk is about what somebody saw who, instead of refusing, went in and checked from the inside where the line runs that is not worth crossing, and what can be built on this.
Who
Themo "themojn" Melikidze
Actor · Creative Director
Georgian-born, theatre-trained actor and creative director in Los Angeles. After an off-Broadway season in New York he moved into film and television, playing Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Peter Berg's Patriots Day, with roles in The Rookie and 24: Legacy and voice work for Call of Duty and Battlefield. When the pandemic paused production he founded 2MRW.ai, a studio building AI-driven visual pipelines for film and advertising. His credits include AI pipeline architecture and animation lead on the Imagine Entertainment and Obsidian documentary, plus American Express, Lexus and an upcoming Hulu project.
