Producer Kathleen Kennedy and American Film Institute dean Susan Ruskin have been quietly convening Hollywood power players and Silicon Valley figures since 2023 to hash out AI’s role in filmmaking, The Ankler revealed Thursday. The off-the-record meetings, which expanded to roughly 120 participants at an AFI event last weekend, produced the group’s first public document. Titled “Human Generative Workflows,” it argues Hollywood needs to stop treating all AI use as equivalent. The framework splits AI use into three tiers: built-in editing tools like denoising and upscaling, artist-directed “Human Generative Workflows” where creators control generative models within traditional pipelines, and “Machine