Keanu Reeves Has a Surprising Take on AI and NFT Art – Here’s What He Thinks
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- Keanu Reeves is interested in blockchain technology and thinks that cryptocurrencies are amazing for exchanging resources. He owns cryptocurrency, and he is involved in the NFT art world.
- The celebrity created a web3 charitable organization called the Futurverse Foundation to encourage the growth of the metaverse, which is a virtual reality space.
- Keanu Reeves thinks that artificial intelligence (AI) and NFT digital art are impressive, but we need to look beyond the spectacle and consider what is truly valuable.
In a recent interview with Wired to promote his new film โJohn Wick 4,โ Keanu Reeves emphasized that he is amazed by the idea of blockchain technology, adding that cryptocurrencies are โamazing tools for exchanges and distribution of resources.โ
Reeves on blockchain and crypto
โI think the principle, the ideas behind an independent currency, are amazing. To pooh-pooh crypto, or the volatility of cryptocurrency, itโs only going to make it better in terms of how itโs safeguarded,โ Reeves explained.
In a separate interview, the John Wick star shared that he has been holding crypto since December 2021 because his friend bought it for him.
Thoughts on AI and NFT
Meanwhile, when asked about his movie, โThe Matrix,โ where speculations about the future of AI were formed, Reeves responded that โpeople are growing up with these tools: weโre listening to music already thatโs made by AI in the style of Nirvana; thereโs NFT digital art.โ
โItโs this sensorium. Itโs spectacle… a system of control and manipulation. Weโre on our knees looking at cave walls and seeing the projections, and weโre not having the chance to look behind us. Or to the side,โ he stressed.
Moreover, Reeves highlighted that it is cool to have machines behind the AI industry, adding that โbut thereโs a corporatocracy behind it thatโs looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, weโre gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the nonvalue.โ
Futureverse Foundation
In June last year, the Matrix star launched a web3 charitable organization named Futurverse Foundation with Fluf World NFT and the actorโs partner, Alexandra Grant. Reeves and Grant are currently advisers to the foundation to โhelp encourage the growth of the metaverse.โ
As per Reeves, the foundation was actually Grantโs idea, and he just showed his full support:
โI helped set up the launch. Weโre trying to take this technology that people are interested in and give opportunities to artists with different viewpoints.โ
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