The inaugural World AI Film Festival kicks off in Nice on April 11 with the twin aim of awarding video creations and screenplays made using artificial intelligence technology and bringing together key figures from the film and AI tech worlds to discuss how to creatively and ethically fuse the two industries.

The festival is the brainchild of former Apple Worldwide COO Marco Landi who co-founded the France-based EuropIA Institute, which is dedicated to raising awareness about the challenges of artificial intelligence.

“Our aim is to show how AI is not destroying creativity – on the contrary, it gives more opportunity to the imagination,...