Cate Blanchett told the BBC she was “deeply concerned” about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
“I look at these robots and driverless cars and I really don’t know what they’re going to do to anyone,” the Australian actress told Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday.
Blanchett, 55, is promoting her new film “Rumours,” an apocalyptic comedy about a group of world leaders trapped in a forest.
“Our film looks like a sweet little documentary compared to what’s going on in the world,” she said.
Asked if she was worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on her work, she said she was “less concerned” about it and more concerned about “the impact it will have on ordinary people.”
“I worry about us as a species and this is a bigger problem.”
She added that the threat of artificial intelligence is “very real” because “you can completely replace anyone.”
“It doesn’t matter if they are actors or not, as long as you record 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 views advances in artificial intelligence as “experiments for their own sake.”
“When you look at it one way, it’s creative, but it’s also incredibly destructive, and that’s certainly the other side of it.”
In “Rumors,” Blanchett plays the German chancellor who hosts the G7 summit for other world leaders.
Politicians are not based on real politicians, she said, and she “deliberately avoids that because that’s what the audience has to endure.”
Guy Martin, the film’s director, added that he deliberately did not reveal the characters’ ideologies or allegories because “in understanding a film, we try to have the audience project a message onto the film, a lesson that they find themselves in. ” it”.
Martin explained that he started creating the characters “out of pure disdain,” but as the movie progressed and more ridiculous things started to happen, “you kind of feel for them.”
Blanchett told the BBC: “They weren’t politicians for very long and the structures that made them world leaders disappeared very quickly.”
“What you see is that they don’t know who they are, and that’s part of the human element of them that has little to do with the real world.
“People talk about actors being infantilized and indulged, but politicians are infantilized and indulged by the system.”
