Timothee Chalamet thinks AI is set to change the movie business.

The 30-year-old actor believes Gen Z will bear the brunt of teaching society how to live with AI - but Timothee accepts that he also has a duty to support them in order to achieve that.

Speaking at Variety and CNN's town hall event in Texas - where he appeared alongside Matthew McConaughey - Timothee said: "It's going to be all of our war to wage -- sounds confrontational, I don't mean to say it like that -- but it's a dual responsibility.

"Unfortunately for your generation, I think it's going to be you guys that figure out how to integrate it. There's a huge [responsibility for] people that are positions of power now, like myself, like Matthew, to safekeep so that doors stay open. Some of the roles I got that helped kickstart my career, I wouldn't even know if they're available today."

Timothee told college-age students at the event that they have a moral responsibility to implement AI in an ethical way.

The Hollywood star shared: "There's a level of fatalism I feel. It will be on your generation, and mine to an extent, to know how to ethically integrate it, if at all, or do away with it.

"But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming. And the dreamer in me wants to go, 'Hey, if it enables a 19-year-old to produce something they couldn't otherwise because there's gatekeepers standing in the way, then [good].' But ultimately, it's not my place to say."

Timothee believes that, ultimately, the movie industry will find a healthy way to embrace AI technology.

The film star said: "I wanna keep the doors open for you guys. But someone's gonna figure out how to do it all at once.

"I'm fiercely protective of actors and artists in this industry. And equally, whatever tide is coming, it's coming."