Ben Affleck Uses ‘Succession’ As Example When Talking About AI [Video]

Ben Affleck, by all accounts, is an incredibly intelligent dude. Not only is he an Academy Award-winning director, but there are rumors of him having an IQ in the range of 155-160, and a litany of anecdotes about him being the smartest guy in the room. He’s also survived more career highs and lows than perhaps any other A-lister out there (that doesn’t involve breaking the law).

Frankly, if you listen to Ben Affleck talk whenever he isn’t acting, you can tell how intelligent he is through the sheer intensity with which he speaks, as if his head is about to explode because it’s bursting with an idea he just can’t wait to get out.

The latest example of Affleck’s mad genius came during CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2024 event earlier this week, in which he cooked up an insane fan-fiction ending to Successionin which Kendall Roy runs off and “has an affair” with his old …