Every story you love has a human fingerprint on it. Someone felt something they needed to share, and they made it real. A machine can copy the shape of that, but no one is inside it.

In this episode of Catholic Futurist, Benjamin Crockett sits down with actor, producer, and Novo Inspire Studios co-founder Lorenzo Henrie, who plays the apostle Jude Thaddeus in Mel Gibson's The Resurrection of the Christ, and Dave Plisky, Director of Marketing & Digital and Director of Product & Innovation at DeSales Media. They talk about what makes a story human, what AI can and can't do in film, and why that difference matters for Catholic storytellers.

• Why true creativity requires a soul, and why AI has neither
• How AI is already reshaping VFX, dubbing, and short-form content in Hollywood
• The real cost of replacing human artists with AI
• Why 60% of major brands are already using AI in production, and what that signals
• The social media trap Catholic storytellers are already caught in
• Why the Church needs guardrails on AI before history repeats itself
• The case for a Christian storytelling manifesto