Glenn Close grapples with AI threat in Hollywood: ‘What is going to be truth?’

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Close told The Hollywood Reporter. “There were so many people impacted in LA already, and then now with the fires. I was astounded at how few jobs there are in our profession.

I’m a big reader of history, and unfortunately, I think not enough people in this country understand the history and what we’ve just gotten ourselves into.

That’s very dangerous.“On top of that is [artificial intelligence]. What is going to be truth? What is true is going to be a big question.”Close told the outlet she had recently finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s novel, “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI,” a book which she found “incredible,” yet “more terrifying than anything I’ve read.”When asked her interpretation of AI, Close said, “Depends on how it’s handled.” “I don’t want my image or my voice to be reconstructed,” she noted. “I mean, people need jobs.

It’s a sad dilemma.” Close pondered, “Is it progress that less people will work because of it? I don’t know. I think we’re losing one thing that a place like Sundance and what Michelle has done is so important — stories about what it means to be a human being.