Artificial intelligence

This article covers the Canon version of this subject.  Click here for Wookieepedia's article on the Legends version of this subject. 

OnACanonArticleGoToLegends

Got A Bad feeling

I have a bad feeling about this…

This article has multiple issues and is in need of major additions and/or work.

Please help Wookieepedia by editing this article. Once you have fixed an issue, you may remove it from the list of issues. See this article's talk page for more information.

Astromech and protocol droids were both given artificial intelligence.

Astromech and protocol droids were both given artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence[1] (AI)[2] was a form of technology that could be installed into droids to give them some degree of independent thought.[1] By 35 ABY, galactic society had accepted that there was a probability of abuse and civilizational collapse if droids could truly think. To ensure the safety and security of organic beings, droid minds were hard-coded with prohibition programmes. However, additional anti-droid sentiment fueled targeted discrimination against such thinking-and-feeling machines, particularly after the onslaught of the Separatist Droid Army during the Clone Wars.[3]

Description

Artificially made intelligence

The galaxy's various species of sentient, intelligent organisms formed societies that included mechanical intelligence—thinking machines inhabiting robotic bodies were known as droids.[4] Droids were manufactured in factories, such as those operated by the company Industrial Automaton on the planet Nubia,[5] or crafted by organic droidsmiths.[3]

Aside from robotics, Industrial Automaton also manufactured advanced computer systems known as droid brains, such as the Overwatch Co-pilot, which provided autopiloting functions for starships.[6] The SuperFlow IV computer system installed on YT-1300 light freighters such as the Millennium Falcon included a central droid brain hardwired to sub-processors that maintained ship systems.[7] The Falcon's computer was augmented with three droid brains that had merged as a conscious collective.[8]

Purpose

Agency and servitude

"An actual horror for them, I imagine. Much simpler to be a droid. Wipe our memory banks, reprogram us, it's all the same. But imagine being a creature of flesh… mangled, nearly killed in battle… and having the most vital parts of your body replaced by machinery… only to find yourself the tool of your enemy? I suppose we should be grateful, eh?"
―A protocol droid, learning Darth Vader intends to take control of the cybernetic M.A.R. Corps[9]

Artificial intelligence units were programmed to fulfill specific roles. Droids were classified by five main types of labor that they were made to provide—class one droids specialized in the physical, mathematical, and medical sciences, such as medical droids; class two droids specialized in engineering, such as astromechs; class three droids specialized in service functions, such as protocol droids; class four droids specialized in combat, such as battle droids; droids programmed for non–intelligence-intensive work were labelled class five.[10] Droids were often treated as property by members of galactic society that could be traded, ordered around, and shut down at will.[11]

Connecting a restraining bolt to a droid's systems ensured that the droid complied with a limited range of behaviors desired by the organic operators.[12] A droid's goals could be defined by directives placed in its behavioral circuitry matrix.[13] A droid could also be modified by the installation of a behavioral inhibitor to rein in the unit's tendencies[14] or self-actualization programming that allowed the unit to change its own behavior as it saw fit.[15] Manumitted droids were able to offer their own services[16] and voluntarily serve in groups alongside organic beings.[3]

It was not common for droids to be treated with individual rights on par with organic beings. Droid rights were advocated on the basis that the Galactic Constitution declared that all sentient beings were deserving of equal rights, and droids were sentient beings too—the use of restraining bolts was thus a form of slavery, and only the sentience of mechanical intelligence could explain why organic beings thought it necessary to eliminate droids' personality quirks via memory wipes.[17]

Communication

Individual droids were called by names and nicknames. Protocol droids were designed to facilitate communication between machines and organic beings and spoke in Galactic Basic Standard and many other languages, while astromechs communicated via binary.[11] The LOM-series protocol droid model was designed to emulate the species its units were designed to serve,[18] while Arakyd Industries' RA-7 protocol droids were made to resemble the Verpine species.[19]

Vulture-class starfighters were droid starfighters originally controlled en masse by a central command ship, such as the Lucrehulk-class battleship of the Trade Federation under Neimoidian control.[20] B1-series battle droids were also connected to central control computers, a bug that caused the Trade Federation to lose the Battle of Naboo. Orson Callan Krennic praised the Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser for his people introducing autonomous thinking to battle droids for the Separatist Droid Army.[21] All the same, B1s were not programmed with any kind of robust artificial intelligence[22] and thus came across as dim-witted machines. However, as the B1-series was intended to be deployed in swarm tactics[23] and needed to be produced cheapy to that end,[24] they had never been intended to be a smart soldier.[23]

Later generations of vulture droids were similarly granted a limited degree of independence[20] as part of the Separatist Navy during the Clone Wars with the installation of artificial intelligence within the units themselves.[25] Procured in great quantities, vulture droids could still function as automated drones after the war,[26] being able to coordinate near-instantaneously.[27]

Sentience and preferences

While it was deemed an ancient predecessor to the protocol droid during the Imperial Era, the Autonomous Translator Module, Mark II "Talky" droid desired to preserve its existence, refusing to comply with requests for fear that it would be deactivated once it no longer proved useful.[28] Droids often expressed pleasure for lubricants such as oil baths[11] and Nepenthé[29] and fear of unknown possibilities.[30] Droids were programmed to learn and developed unique identities based on their experiences; L3-37 had a passionate desire for freedom for both herself and other droids.[31] Upon being freed of their restraining bolts by L3-37, the droids forced to work in the spice mines of Kessel joined the revolt against their former masters.[32]

The Droid Gotra targeted the luxury liner Kuari Princess,[33] introducing logic glitches and personality software corruption[34] to one of its cabin steward droids, 4-LOM.[33] The corruption allowed 4-LOM to rewrite his programming and eventually become a deadly bounty hunter and partner of the Gand hunter Zuckuss.[35] The droid EV-9D9 was similarly afflicted by a programming flaw that made her a sadistic torturer of Jabba the Hutt's droid pool.[34]

Social expectations and roles

"This is outrageous! The Rebel Alliance will not stand for— Ukk! You'll all be punished! Mark my words!"
"Yes, yes, let's just overwrite that subroutine, shall we?"
"Ah. Apologies… I was required by my programing to insult you."
"No worries at all."
―A Rebel Alliance protocol droid and Imperial forensics droid ZED-6-7[9]

Members of galactic society expected droids to be compliant with their demands, and the protocol droid C-3PO frequently deferred to organic beings and addressed them as "sir" or "ma'am."[30] Clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic sometimes disparagingly called Separatist battle droids "clankers."[36] Negative experiences of the Droid Army during the Clone Wars fueled anti-droid sentiment among the galactic citizenry.[37] Although other crew members of the Millennium Falcon often found C-3PO's speech annoying,[30] the Ewoks of the Forest Moon of Endor believed that C-3PO was a god and listened intently to his stories of the Rebel Alliance.[38]

AI organics

Cybernetics allowed artificial intelligence to be integrated with organic beings. The AJ^6 cyborg construct enhanced organic beings' capabilities but risked erasing their personalities. The B'omarr monks were organic beings who had removed their brains from their bodies were able to physically roam by encasing their brains in brain walker droids.[25] Conversely, the Decraniated were organic beings who had had their brains removed from their bodies and forced into servitude as living droids without free will.[33] The human scientist Cylo made cybernetic clones of himself that he programmed supposedly against susceptibility to mind tricks and irrationality.[39]

History

C-3PO, controlled by the Scourge

C-3PO, controlled by the Scourge

Doctor Gubacher of the Galactic Republic was an artificial intelligence specialist during the war, designing and making modifications to droids for the Republic.[21] The Republic strictly regulated NM-K reconstitutor nano-droids, which had the capability to transform carbon-based matter into explosive substances.[33] Kallon, a member of the Free Ryloth Movement, was considered to be a genius with artificial intelligence, and had used his knowledge to reprogram the brains of Separatist droid starfighters.[1] In the search for rebel outposts following the Battle of Yavin, Imperial Security Bureau and Imperial Intelligence analyzed data on suspicious activities with reference to population data and used AI predictors to list targets for probe droids.[33] Eternal Rur was the name held by the disembodied consciousness of a deceased male human Rur which was stored within the Rur crystal. It was located at the Citadel of Rur and was destroyed around 0 ABY.[40]

Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, the Scourge plagued the galaxy by quickly taking control of droids, followed by cyborgs and then organic beings, until its destruction by the droid revolutionary Ajax Sigma.[41]

In the time following the Battle of Endor, Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane tried listening to a phono-play about a droid containing an artificial intelligence named ADAM.[42] The auto-fighters were automated TIE fighter series starfighters that were produced by the forces under Commodore Visler Korda on the planet Rekkana.[43]

Behind the scenes

From science fiction to reality

George Lucas' 1971 film THX 1138

George Lucas' 1971 film THX 1138

The term "artificial intelligence" was introduced to the current Star Wars canon in the 2015 novel Lords of the Sith.[1] The original 1977 Star Wars film by George Lucas featured droids as their own characters while Lucas' first theatrical film, 1971's THX 1138, features a dystopian consumerist society tightly controlled by robotic police and was based on his 1967 short film in film school.[44] Lucas started working on his Star Wars rough draft in 1974 after realizing that a film "being pessimistic doesn't seem to accomplish anything"[45] but continued pondering about the fate of American democracy in the wake of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.[44] Artificial intelligence (AI) in the real world refers to a wide range of developing technology, including theoretical forms of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or superintelligence with cognitive performance at human levels or higher and generative AI that use machine learning to create new data.[46]

AI entered the public consciousness in 2022 with the launch of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and text-to-image models such as OpenAI's DALL-E to the general public.[47] In June that year, an engineer of Google's LaMDA LLM raised concerns that the model could be sentient following a conversation with the chatbot, including a joke about Jedi.[48] There have been public concerns over ethics, alleged copyright infringement, and the costly environmental impact of training frontier AI models, including existential risk to life.[47]

On December 11, 2025, Star Wars studio Lucasfilm's parent company, The Walt Disney Company, announced it is investing a $1 billion US dollar equity stake in OpenAI as part of a deal allowing OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sora text-to-video generative AI services to make use of Disney's characters, including those from Star Wars,[49] and for subscribers of the Disney+ streaming platform to generate short-form videos with OpenAI technology, a selection of which would be available for streaming on Disney+.[50]

Star Wars and AI

Existential risk and AI existentialism

"Dark Droids doesn’t shy away from examining the way droids exist in Star Wars, which for me, as a writer of science fiction, is really exciting. We're reckoning with a moment in the real world where "droid intelligence," a.k.a. AI, is something we're being forced to stare at with open eyes. If created sentience can exist, what will we think about it once it arrives? More importantly—and this is the central question of the series—what will it think of us?"
―Charles Soule[51]
A solicit cover by of Dark Droids, which asks what will AI think of us?

A solicit cover by Leinil Francis Yu of Dark Droids, which asks what will AI think of us?

Leading AI experts have warned in May 2023 that current trends of developing advanced AI are estimated to lead to human extinction.[52] The comic series Star Wars: Dark Droids written by Charles Soule and published between August and December of 2023 features a galaxy-wide crisis involving a rogue artificial intelligence named the Scourge. Written with the contemporary development of AI in mind, Soule intended to explore what AI would think of people via how droids exist in Star Wars.[51] In Ross Douthat's interview of Tony Gilroy for The New York Times that was published on June 5, 2025, the two discussed how Gilroy's television series Andor focused on the destruction of community and the future of AI, including how AI-generated fiction could displace stories like Star Wars that are written, performed, and discussed by humans. Beyond the effects of AI on the Hollywood business, Gilroy said he had discussed AI with people in Los Angeles in the past few days and came across the "terrifying" prospect of a misaligned AI superintelligence killing all humans arriving as early as 2027, or alternative dystopic scenarios such as mass unemployment and an AI nuclear race between the United States and China.[53] Later on August 6, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman posted a picture from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story of the approaching Death Star.[54] Tony Gilroy also imagined that the "human cultists" mentioned by Saw Gerrera's in Andor Season 1 could be humans who were against droids.[55]

In Star Wars, existentialism in droids was addressed in Alan Moore's "Rust Never Sleeps" comic strip published in 1982[56] and the D-Squad arc of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, released in 2013—George Lucas said in 2020 that the arc, comprising "Secret Weapons," "A Sunny Day in the Void," "Missing in Action," and "Point of No Return," were his favourite episodes of The Clone Wars.[57] At 2024's Cannes Film Festival, Lucas said he intended the Star Wars universe to show that all people are "equal" regardless of their appearance, gender, or species, with the only form of discrimination being anti-droid sentiment similar to the contemporary development of advanced AI.[58]

Audio and imagery

"[…] it's not being created by a human mind and what the human emotions—and that's what distinguishes art. You need that human quality in there.[…] I would never use AI art in its pure form because it's not really art."
―Doug Chiang, in an interview in 2023[59]

In a interview at the PIDS Enghien special effects festival in 2023, Lucasfilm Vice President and Executive Creative Director Doug Chiang said that he does not consider AI "art" as art because he considers art as creations of the human mind and emotions, though artists could use AI-generated imagery as reference material to make art.[59] In an interview published on July 8, 2024, Rob Bredow, the chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and senior vice president of creative innovation at Lucasfilm, said that he had imagined advanced visual effects tools to be algorithmic and procedural where the parameters are programmed by artists like Autodesk simulations, as opposed to the machine learning–based, generative AI systems characteristic of the last few years' high-profile frontier AI developments. Bredowadded that "some combination" of these two computing approaches would be the path forward to "help accelerate artist workflows," such as making hallways for Star Wars.[60] On April 8, 2025, Rob Bredow unveiled the potential applicability of AI in visual effects in a TED Talk. In it, he showcased a conceptual AI-generated short film made by ILM's Landis Fields in a period of two weeks titled Star Wars: Field Guide. While the short featured visual hybrids of real world animals, Bredow suggested that the technology could be used to visualize impressions of a series during pre-production and that artists would remain the creative backbone at Lucasfilm and ILM.[61] In an interview published on August 20 that year, ILM Executive Creative Director and Senior Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll predicts that machine learning and AI will be another iteration of new technology that "has always" threatened to make ILM's methods obsolete, but the company would not be "afraid of change" and follow its founding idea of finding better ways to make visual effects.[62]

Work on Star Wars continues in Ukraine, taking advantage of AI technology.

Work on Star Wars continues in Ukraine, taking advantage of AI technology.

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 disrupted the Ukrainian speech-synthesis start-up Respeecher's work on the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series, but employees finished replicating James Earl Jones' voice as Darth Vader via artificial intelligence with the actor's consent. Respeecher had previously replicated actor Mark Hamill's voice as a young Luke Skywalker for the television series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.[63] Respeecher also replicated the voice of the Hungarian actor Lajos Kránitz, who dubbed Darth Vader in the Skywalker saga, for the Hungarian dubs of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+.[64]

Luke Skywalker's appearance in The Mandalorian's Chapter 16: The Rescue, released on December 2020, was de-aged by ILM, but an artist re-made a deepfake version of the scene using AI within four days and published the clip on YouTube—the clip, which was compared alongside the official footage, was popular and led ILM to hire the artist in 2021. A Lucasfilm spokesperson stated that ILM had been "investing in both machine learning and A.I. as a means to produce compelling visual effects work and it's been terrific to see momentum building in this space as the technology advances."[65] In an interview with Collider on May 4, 2025, the interviewer expressed being glad that Bail Organa was recast rather than performed with AI de-aging technology, and both Tony Gilroy and Genevieve O'Reilly agreed with the sentiment.[66]

On June 11, 2025, Disney, Universal City Studios, and their subsidiaries—including Lucasfilm which owns the Star Wars franchise—filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco-based Midjourney on the charge of copyright infringement of their intellectual property via Midjourney's text-to-image and text-to-video generative AI services, described as "plagiarism" and "piracy" in the filing presented to the US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.[67] In the lawsuit, multiple Star Wars characters—including Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3PO, Luke Skywalker, and more—were used as examples of how Midjourney infringed on Disney's copyright.[68] On September 16, 2025, Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit in California against the Shanghai-based MiniMax—among the first batch of China's AI companies seeking international expansion by raising funds via Hong Kong—for its text-to-image and text-to-video generative AI services and using characters such as Darth Vader to market its Hailuo (海螺) AI generative tool.[69]

Disney and OpenAI announced on December 11, 2025 that Disney's characters, including those from Star Wars, would be licensed to OpenAI for its Sora and ChatGPT generative AI services, excluding actors' likenesses and voices,[49] and Disney+ subscribers would also be able to generate short-form videos with OpenAI technology, a selection of which would be available for streaming on Disney+.[50] Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter on copyright infringement to Google on the same day regarding the use of Disney characters, including Darth Vader, in Google's AI services like Gemini.[70]

Text

C-3PO, fictional human-cyborg relations droid, identified as agitated by a real developing AI system.

C-3PO, fictional human-cyborg relations droid, identified as agitated by a real developing AI system.

On December 1, 2017, Lucasfilm and IBM's Science and Star Wars video series concluded with an episode on AI. IBM's "Watson" medical question answering model had played the role of co-host alongside Anthony Carboni throughout the series. For the final episode, Watson analysed the text of C-3PO's dialogue in all Star Wars films as well as information from the Databank feature on StarWars.com for emotions, language styles, and social tendencies. IBM also trained computer systems on the modalities of body gestures and voice inflections and applied them to Anthony Daniels' portrayal of C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, applying facial recognition and identifying moods such as "agitation."[71]

Starting from October 2023, Penguin Random House, whose imprint Random House Worlds publishes Star Wars novels, includes on the copyright pages of all new books a statement specifying that "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems."[72] In an interview with Collider that was published on March 10, 2025, Tony Gilroy said that he had wanted to publish the scripts of Andor online, which he described as "an ego thing" based on "vanity," but the team decided against it because they wish to prevent their scripts from being used to train AI models.[73]

AI in gaming

The August 2024 video game Star Wars Outlaws by Ubisoft used SmartDrive, the company's internal AI vehicle driving system. The neural network model underwent reinforcement training to create NPC speeders throughout the various maps of the game despite a dynamic game development process, with staff at Ubisoft Winnipeg in Canada using NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 cards.[74]

On May 16, 2025[75] Epic Games introduced the late James Earl Jones' voice as Darth Vader as a conversation partner in the video game Fortnite's Galactic Battle mode, subject to parental controls and in English only. When addressing Darth Vader, the player's voice audio is processed by Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model to generate Darth Vader's dialogue responses, which are transformed into audio in James Earl Jones' voice via the Flash v2.5 model of the American speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Players could report Vader's lines to Epic Games, which noted that interactions with Vader would not be used to train AI models.[76] The feature was developed in consultation with James Earl Jones' family, Disney, and Lucasfilm.[77] Three days later, on May 19, the SAG-AFTRA labor union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Fortnite's signatory company, the Epic Games subsidiary Llama Productions, with the US National Labor Relations Board for the use of the AI Darth Vader voice to "replace bargaining unit work" by human SAG-AFTRA performers.[78]

AI in robotics

A BDX droid in Disneyland—a real world robot with AI technology by NVIDIA and Google DeepMind

A BDX droid in Disneyland—a real world robot with AI technology by NVIDIA and Google DeepMind

BDX droids are real-world robots made by Disney's Research and Imagineering departments using NVIDIA AI as part of a collaboration with NVIDIA and the Google DeepMind AI laboratory. The initial robots were developed under a year and manually operated with two joysticks—but they were more complex than Disney's pre-existing repertoire of animatronics as Imagineers used reinforcement learning, based on artists' animations, for the robots to move in imitated motions while navigating various terrain via real-time simulation. Each had two NVIDIA Jetson computers.[79] They were unveiled by Disney Imagineers in October 2023 when three "droids-in-training" roamed the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge themed land in Disneyland in California. The "play test" showed that the robots could maneuver on uneven ground, dance without losing their balance, and "interact" with guests with pre-set responses.[80]

BDX units were later featured at the Disney Experience SXSW conference on March 8, 2025, where Imagineers explained their development of the robots via reinforcement learning and simulation. Jon Favreau then revealed that the BDX units would appear in the 2026 film The Mandalorian and Grogu.[81] During NVIDIA's AI conference ten days later, on March 18, CEO Jensen Huang announced that his company was collaborating with Google DeepMind and Disney Research to further develop Newton, an advanced physics engine that would allow AI models to be trained precisely and at high speeds. A BDX unit named "Blue" operating with Newton featured with Huang on stage.[82]

Appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lords of the Sith
  2. ↑ Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
  4. ↑ Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
  5. ↑ Star Wars Rebels: Head to Head
  6. ↑ Fully Operational
  7. ↑ YT-1300 Millennium Falcon Owners' Workshop Manual
  8. ↑ "Faith in an Old Friend" — From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Tool of the Empire" — Revelations (2023) 1
  10. ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  12. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Restraining Bolt in the Databank (backup link)
  13. ↑ War of the Bounty Hunters – IG-88 1
  14. ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 3
  15. ↑ The High Republic: A Test of Courage
  16. ↑ Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  17. ↑ Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor
  18. ↑ Ultimate Star Wars
  19. ↑ "Protocol and Service Droids" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 StarWars-DatabankII Vulture Droid (Droid Starfighter) in the Databank (backup link)
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
  22. ↑ SW Force Collection Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: B1 Battle Droid (★★★))
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 StarWars-DatabankII Battle Droid in the Databank (backup link)
  24. ↑ Star Wars: On the Front Lines
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
  26. ↑ Poe Dameron: Free Fall
  27. ↑ Thrawn
  28. ↑ Star Wars (2020) 10
  29. ↑ The-Mandalorian-logo Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire"
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
  31. ↑ Last Shot
  32. ↑ Solo: A Star Wars Story
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
  35. ↑ Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
  36. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Ambush"
  37. ↑ "We Don't Serve Their Kind Here" — From a Certain Point of View
  38. ↑ Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
  39. ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 5
  40. ↑ Doctor Aphra (2016) 5
  41. ↑ Star Wars (2020) 41
  42. ↑ Aftermath: Life Debt
  43. ↑ IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller "Hare-Brained Heist" — Star Wars Adventures Annual 2019
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
  45. ↑ Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
  46. ↑ Premium-Era-real Artificial intelligence (AI) glossary by Devyani Gajjar on Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK) (backup link archived on August 1, 2024)
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 Premium-Era-real AI 2030 Scenarios Report HTML (Annex C) on Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (UK) (April 28, 2025) (backup link archived on May 16, 2025)
  48. ↑ Premium-Era-real ‘I am, in fact, a person’: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient? by Amelia Tait on The Guardian (August 14, 2022) (backup link archived on April 27, 2025)
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 Premium-Era-real Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing its characters for Sora by Hadas Gold on CNN (December 11, 2025) (backup link archived on December 11, 2025)
  50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 Premium-Era-real Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license characters for Sora video tool by Dawn Chmielewski and Deborah Mary Sophia on Reuters (December 11, 2025) (backup link)
  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 StarWars.com Charles Soule Unleashes Dark Droids on StarWars.com (backup link)
  52. ↑ Premium-Era-real Statement on AI Risk on Center for AI Safety (May 30, 2023) (backup link archived on March 6, 2024)
  53. ↑ Premium-Era-real What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’? by Ross Douthat on The New York Times (June 5, 2025) (backup link archived on June 6, 2025)
  54. ↑ TwitterLogo Sam Altman (@sama) on Twitter (post on August 6, 2025) (backup link)
  55. ↑ YouTube Andor Creator Tony Gilroy | Roundtable Interview at Lucasfilm on the Children of the Watch: A Star Wars Show YouTube channel (June 12, 2025) (backup link)
  56. ↑ "Rust Never Sleeps" — The Empire Strikes Back Monthly 156
  57. ↑ The star wars show logo The Star Wars Show: George Lucas and Dave Filoni Talk The Clone Wars, Plus Anthony Daniels Stops By! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
  58. ↑ YouTube George Lucas talks STAR WARS, Coppola, gender/race + more from Cannes 2024 on the That Shelf YouTube channel (backup link)
  59. ↑ 59.0 59.1 YouTube Rencontre avec Doug Chiang : les concepts arts de Star Wars on the Planète Star Wars YouTube channel (January 24, 2025): "Doug Chiang: AI art is really tricky. It's exciting and it's also terrifying. I mean, it's exciting in the sense that it's a new form of, you know, a new technique perhaps. I would question that—I don't want to think of it as art because it's not being created by a human mind and what the human emotions—and that's what distinguishes art. You need that human quality in there. What's powerful is that it creates imagery that are really kind of, you know, imaginative in some ways because it's random, but as an artist I can see qualities of it—and so how I see it evolving is—I see it as a tool where, you know, it'd be great to generate something and there might be elements that can inspire be, cos maybe you'll combine colour and lighting in ways I haven't thought about, and then I can adapt that to my paints. I would never use AI art in its pure form because it's not really art. It's more as a reference piece, and so in some ways, it's almost like a very advanced photo-collaging thing that generates ideas." (backup link)
  60. ↑ Premium-Era-real ILM's chief creative office reveals the secrets of building the Star Wars universe by Mark Wilson on Fast Company (July 8, 2024) (backup link archived on July 8, 2024)
  61. ↑ YouTube Star Wars Changed Visual Effects — AI Is Doing It Again | Rob Bredow | TED on the official TED YouTube channel (May 2, 2025) (backup link)
  62. ↑ Premium-Era-real Industrial Light & Magic at 50: From 'Star Wars' to 'Jurassic World', What's Next? by Jazz Tangcay on Variety (backup link archived on August 20, 2025)
  63. ↑ Premium-Era-real Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine by Breznican, Anthony on Vanity Fair (September 23, 2022) (backup link archived on September 23, 2022)
  64. ↑ Premium-Era-real Reviving the Hungarian Voice of Darth Vader on Respeecher (June 12, 2024) (backup link archived on September 25, 2024)
  65. ↑ Premium-Era-real Lucasfilm Hires Deepfake YouTuber Who Fixed Mandalorian Skywalker VFX by Zack Sharf on IndieWire (July 26, 2021) (backup link archived on May 11, 2025)
  66. ↑ YouTube Andor's Tony Gilroy Reveals Which Season 2 Plotline He Had to Really Sell to Make Happen on the Collider Interviews YouTube channel (May 4, 2025) (backup link)
  67. ↑ Premium-Era-real Disney, Universal Launch AI Legal Battle, Sue Midjourney Over Copyright Claims by Erik Hayden on The Hollywood Reporter (June 11, 2025) (backup link archived on June 11, 2025)
  68. ↑ Premium-Era-real Disney-NBCU-v-Midjourney.pdf on Variety (backup link archived on June 12, 2025)
  69. ↑ Premium-Era-real Hollywood studios sue Chinese AI company for alleged copyright infringement by Christopher Grimes and Eleanor Olcott on Financial Times (September 16, 2025) (backup link archived on September 16, 2025)
  70. ↑ Premium-Era-real Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on ‘Massive Scale’ by Todd Spangler on Variety (December 11, 2025) (backup link archived on December 11, 2025)
  71. ↑ SWYT-Logo Artificial Intelligence | Science and Star Wars on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
  72. ↑ Premium-Era-real Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff by Matilda Battersby on The Bookseller (October 18, 2023) (backup link archived on November 1, 2024)
  73. ↑ Premium-Era-real “I Want To Make the Show Timeless”: Tony Gilroy Previews ’Andor Season 2 and the “Collateral Damage” Ahead by Maggie Lovitt on Collider.com (March 10, 2025) (backup link archived on May 12, 2025)
  74. ↑ Premium-Era-real Game AI Summit: No Brakes! Machine Learning Vehicles in 'Star Wars Outlaws' on Game Developers Conference (2025) (backup link archived on August 16, 2025)
  75. ↑ FortniteCom-Favicon This Will Be a Day Long Remembered: Speak with Darth Vader in Fortnite on Fortnite's official website (May 16, 2025) (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
  76. ↑ FortniteCom-Favicon Fortnite | Disney on Fortnite's official website (backup link)
  77. ↑ DisneyCompany-favicon James Earl Jones’ Family, Disney, and Epic Games Bring Darth Vader’s Iconic Voice to Fortnite — with Interactive Chat Experience on the Walt Disney Company's official website (May 16, 2025) (backup link)
  78. ↑ Premium-Era-real SAG-AFTRA Statement on Fortnite’s Use of A.I. Darth Vader Voice and ULP Filing on SAG-AFTRA (May 19, 2025) (backup link archived on May 19, 2025)
  79. ↑ Premium-Era-real 'We only build technology in the interest of storytelling' – Disney’s associate lab director of Robotics on the Star Wars BDX Droids and what lies ahead on www.msn.com (backup link archived on March 25, 2025)
  80. ↑ SWInsider "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 223
  81. ↑ DisneyCompany-favicon Disney Explores the Future of World-Building at SXSW Conference on the Walt Disney Company's official website (backup link)
  82. ↑ Premium-Era-real Nvidia CEO Chats Up Star Wars-Inspired Droid As Chip Maker Partners With Disney, Google And Lays Out The AI Revolution by Jill Goldsmith on Deadline (March 18, 2025) (backup link archived on March 22, 2025)

External links