Cate Blanchett has told the BBC that she is “deeply concerned” about the effects of artificial intelligence (AI).
Speaking to Laura Queensberg on Sunday, the Australian actress said: “I’m looking at these robots and driverless cars and I don’t really know what they’re going to bring to anybody.”
Blanchett, 55, was promoting her new film Rumors – an apocalyptic comedy about a group of world leaders trapped in a jungle.
He said that compared to what is happening in the world, our film looks like a cute little documentary.
Asked if he was concerned about AI’s impact on his job, he said he was “less concerned” about it and “more about its impact on the average person”.
“I’m concerned about us as a generation, it’s a huge problem.”
He added that the threat of AI was “very real” because “you can completely replace anyone”.
“Forget whether they’re an actor or not, if you’ve recorded yourself for three or four seconds, your voice can be copied.”
The actress, who won two Oscars for her roles in The Aviator and Blue Jasmine, said she thinks AI development is an “experiment for its own sake.”
“It’s creative when you look at it in one way, but it’s also incredibly destructive, which of course is the other side of it.”
Rumor has it that Blanchett plays the chancellor of Germany who hosts the G7 summit for other world leaders.
He said that the political characters were not based on real politicians and he “deliberately got away from it because the audience would have to bear it”.
The film’s director, Guy Madden, added that he deliberately did not reveal the characters’ ideologies or similes because “when making a film, I try to find a message, a lesson, a self-discovery for the audience.” It goes.”
Madden explained that he started out creating the characters “from a point of extreme disdain”, but as the film progresses and more ridiculous things start to happen “you feel for them a little bit”.
“They’re not politicians for long, the structures that make them world leaders evaporate incredibly quickly,” Blanchett told the BBC.
“What you witness is that they don’t know who they are and that’s part of the artificiality in the way they have little connection to the real world.
“People talk about actors being infantilized and complicit, but there’s something about politicians that they’re infantilized and complicit by the system.”