United Kingdom, April 13 -- Steven Soderbergh doesn't feel "threatened" by AI.

The 63-year-old director has declared that he will be using "a lot" of the technology in his new picture about the Spanish-American war and feels "obligated" to use it in the filmmaking process if it enhances the product.

Soderbergh told Variety: "I'm just not threatened by it. I'm only scared of things I don't understand. So I felt obligated to engage with it, to figure out what it is and what it can do."

The Traffic filmmaker explained how AI was particularly useful for him during production on his forthcoming documentary about Beatles legend John Lennon.

Soderbergh said: "It turned out to be a very good tool for certain passages of the Lennon documentary...