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Aaron Sorkin

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Aaron Sorkin has been a guest on The Interview , On with Kara Swisher , The Interview and The Daily (NYT) .

Recently: “Aaron Sorkin and Jeremy Strong on Zuckerberg’s Power and Facebook’s “Reckoning”” on On with Kara Swisher (October 2026); “Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script” on The Daily (NYT) (September 2026); “Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script” on The Interview (September 2026); “Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script” on The Interview (September 2026).

What They Said

“All I can do is offer an opinion about AI as it pertains to my field. And it's that I'm optimistic, actually, because I think the audience is going to reject it. I think that if you play Call of Duty, you don't have an emotional connection to the people you're shooting in Call of Duty. That's going to be your experience watching AI Schindler's List.” — Aaron Sorkin, On with Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher asked whether the AI industry is repeating Facebook's pattern of ignored warnings from employees. Sorkin, whose film about Facebook he is promoting here, says he knows too little about AI to answer broadly. So he speaks only about filmmaking.

On with Kara Swisher · 2026-10-12 Permalink → Listen →
On with Kara Swisher Around 52:50 into the episode
Speaker 4

His Jeremy's, I know what people think of me. So does my wife. So will my kids. I feel that, you know.

Kara Swisher

…to herself. Do you think we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes of what's happening now? It is getting more play and I think people are willing, especially the data center backlash. I think regular people are quite concerned in the way they weren't when you first started working on these stories.

Speaker 4

I know so little about AI that all I can do, I don't think this is your question, all I can do is offer an opinion about AI as it pertains to my field. And it's that I'm optimistic, actually, because I think the audience is going to reject it. I think that if you play video games, if you play Call of Duty, you don't have an emotional connection to the people you're shooting in Call of Duty. That's going to be your experience watching AI Schindler's List.

Kara Swisher

Yeah. Yeah. Jeremy?

Jeremy Strong

I mean, I just think we are in a moment of existential civilizational crisis, and we're right there in the crosshairs of it right now. I think these red lines are being crossed. I think the issues of control and alignment are not being figured out and are being outpaced by the speed and…

Kara Swisher

And it's privatized. Yeah,

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