Robert Downey Jr. Issues Warning For Future Execs Who Might Use AI To Recreate His Likeness: “My Law Firm Will Still Be Very Active”

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Robert Downey Jr. is firmly anti the usage of generative artificial intelligence to recreate his likeness, issuing a warning to potential future executives who may want to bring Tony Stark back from the dead.

The Oscar-winning Oppenheimer actor recently appeared opposite Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher on the podcast On With Kara Swisher to discuss the former’s Broadway debut in a play about the dangers of the AI age. “There’s two tracks.

How do I feel about everything that’s going on? I feel about it minimally because I have an actual emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have a lot of room for that,” the actor said when prompted to comment on his thoughts on deepfakes and AI recreations.

At the same time, the MCU actor said he’s confident those currently at the conglomerate wouldn’t do such a thing: “To go back to the MCU, I’m not worried about them hijacking my character’s soul because there’s like three or four guys and gals who make all the decisions there anyway and they would never do that to me, with or without me,” he said.