Nicolas Cage Fears AI Will ‘Steal My Body’
By Movieguide® Contributor
NATIONAL TREASURE star Nicolas Cage is opening up about his fears regarding artificial intelligence, especially as an actor.
Cage recently sat down with The New Yorker to talk about his new horror film LONGLEGS, revealing that after the interview he would need to “slip out after this to go get a scan done for the show, and then also for the movie I’m doing after the show. Two scans in one day,” he said, per Fox News Digital.
The tone in Cage’s voice indicated that he was not too thrilled about the scans.
“Well, they have to put me in a computer and match my eye color and change — I don’t know,” he said. “They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI…God, I hope not AI. I’m terrified of that. I’ve been very vocal about it.”
He continued: “And it makes me wonder, you know, where will the truth of the artists end up? Is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be transmogrified? Where’s the heartbeat going to be? I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when I’m dead? I don’t want you to do anything with it.”
Cage isn’t the only Hollywood star who has reservations about AI.
Movieguide® previously reported on director Ridley Scott’s perspective:
THE MARTIAN producer Ridley Scott recently warned the entertainment industry about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
“We have to lock down AI. And I don’t know how you’re going to lock it down,” he told Rolling Stone. “They have these discussions in the government, ‘How are we going to lock down AI?’ …You’re never going to lock it down. Once it’s out, it’s out.”
“If I’m designing AI, I’m going to design a computer whose first job is to design another computer that’s cleverer than the first one,” he added. “And when they get together, then you’re in trouble, because then it can take over the whole electrical-monetary system in the world and switch it off. That’s your first disaster. It’s a technical hydrogen bomb. Think about what that would mean.”
Filmmaker and writer Justine Bateman told the BBC last year that technology should solve problems, and AI in the entertainment industry doesn’t do that.
“The problem it solves is for the corporations that feel they don’t have wide enough profit margins — because if you can eliminate the overhead of having to pay everyone you can appease Wall Street and have greater earnings reports,” she said. “If AI use proliferates, the entertainment industry it will crater the entire structure of this business.”
Movieguide® reported:
However, with the increased use of AI, teachers are beginning to see the harmful effects the technology is having on students.
“A quarter of public K-12 teachers say using AI tools in K-12 education does more harm than good,” a Pew Research study of 2,531 U.S. public school K-12 teachers found. “About a third (32%) say there is about an equal mix of benefit and harm, while only 6% say it does more good than harm. Another 35% say they aren’t sure.”
The group “also used data from a separate survey of 1,453 U.S. teens conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 23, 2023” and found that high school students are willing to use ChatGPT on their assignments.
“19% say they have used it to help them with schoolwork,” Pew Research found. “About a quarter of 11th and 12th graders who have heard of ChatGPT (24%) say they have used it in their schoolwork, compared with 17% of 9th and 10th graders and 12% of 7th and 8th graders.”
Some students have even used ChatGPT to write entire papers. For those students, most of them are caught by their teachers and forced to re-do the essay or take a 0% on the assignment.
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