Actress Sanda Bullock spoke on stage at CNBC's Change Makers and said we must "befriend" AI. The comment came when she was asked about how AI is being used to create fake trailers for an upcoming film in which she stars.
"Well, there could be worse," she said, "with my image. I haven't, I haven't seen it, but I've seen the AI meme of me and my kids, and I'm we're laughing so hard. I'm like, 'I'm so sorry,' because I've hidden their faces for so long, but just what they've chosen. And I'm like, 'I'm so sorry.'"
"But it's, you know, it's here," she went on. "We have to, we have to observe it. We have to understand it. We have to lean into it. We have to use it in a really constructive and creative way, make it our friend, rather than, I mean, we have to be incredibly cautious and aware of it, because there are people who will use it for evil and not good.
Sandra Bullock says AI "is here, we have to just befriend it in some dark way." pic.twitter.com/zpPE5XsF28
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