Tom Hanks says AI will keep him alive in movies after his death: ‘Anybody can recreate themselves at any age’

Amid the ongoing Screenwriters Union strike in the US, actor Tom Hanks has stirred the AI ​​pot with a statement that’s controversial, sounds plausible and (hence) downright scary. Controversial to those who are purists and do not want AI to be part of any process during any creative production. Appreciable for capitalist producers who don’t care about ‘who’ or ‘what’. Because for them what matters in the end is money. Scary for the generation that won’t differentiate AI generated content from real (man made content). Here’s what the Polar Express and Forrest Gump stars said on ‘The Adam Buxton Podcast.’

Through artificial intelligence or deep fake tech, anyone can recreate themselves at any age.

The actor and filmmaker says that if he gets hit by a bus tomorrow, he will still be alive on screen, performing through artificial intelligence and deep mimicry skills. He says that there probably won’t be anything to differentiate onscreen that it’s not Tom Hanks, as it will have a somewhat life-like quality.

He comments that the audience will definitely recognize the AI ​​but will they care? There are those who don’t, laments the actor.

Tom Hanks: I can still appear in movies after death with AI technology

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Hanks adds that it will certainly be both an artistic and a legal challenge. The actor cited The Polar Express (2004), which deals with the amount of artist data being fed to a computer. He says that the ability to calculate and convert ones and zeros into faces and characters has only increased a billion times since then. And now it is almost everywhere.

Hanks says that it is now possible for him to appear as a 32-year-old man, even though he is no longer there.

The show will probably go on for Tom Hanks, provided the legal issues are resolved.

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