Cate Blanchett is ‘deeply worried’ about artificial intelligence’s impact
Cate Blanchett has told the BBC she is “deeply concerned” about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the Australian actress said: “I’m looking at these robots and driverless cars and I don’t really know what that’s bringing anybody. She said that she is “less worried” about AI’s impact on her career and “more concerned about its impact on the average person”.
When asked if she was concerned about AI’s impact on her, she replied, “I am more worried about it’s impact on us as “
She added the threat of AI was “very real” as “you can totally replace anyone”.
“Forget whether they’re an actor or not, if you’ve recorded yourself for three or four seconds your voice can be replicated. The actress said that AI was “experimentation done for its own sake”.
“When you look at AI in one way, it’s creativity. But it’s also destructive, which is of course the other side.” “
In Rumours, Blanchett plays the Chancellor of Germany who hosts a G7 summit for other world leaders.
She said the political characters were not based on real politicians and she “deliberately stepped away from that as that’s what an audience is going to bring to bear”.
The film’s director, Guy Maddin, added that he intentionally does not reveal the ideologies or allegories of the characters because “there’s an attempt when making sense of a movie for an audience to project on to it a message, a lesson, to find themselves in it”.
Maddin explained that he started creating the characters “from a point of sheer contempt”, but as the film progresses and more ludicrous things start to happen “you feel for them a little bit”.
“They’re not politicians for very long, the structures that make them world leaders evaporate incredibly quickly,” Blanchet told the BBC.
“What you witness is that they don’t know who they are and that’s part of the artificiality of the way they have very little to do with the real world.
“People talk about actors being infantilised and indulged, but there’s something about politicians being infantilised and indulged by the system. “
