‘Battlestar Galactica’ star calls present’s AI warning extra related than ever

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer feels the present was a prescient warning about synthetic intelligence when it debuted greater than 20 years in the past.

“We did warn in opposition to AI whereas we had been capturing it,” Helfer instructed Fox Information Digital on the Beverly Hills Movie Competition this week. 

She continued, “It was 20 years in the past, and I’ve not too long ago re-watched it and went, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s much more related now.’ So I believe we simply actually have to be cautious. It’s a slippery slope between utilizing it to our benefit and having it perhaps be capable of management us a bit of bit.”

“I believe we’re a bit of bit far off from the humanoid Cylons but and humanoid robots, however I don’t know, they’re coming,” Helfer added.

“Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer warns AI generally is a “slippery slope” for humanity. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Pictures)

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“Battlestar Galactica” debuted on the SyFy channel in 2004, reimagined from the 1978 unique collection, and follows the battle between people and Cylons, the humanoid sentient robots people created that turned on them and launched a nuclear assault that just about worn out the whole lot of humanity.

Helfer performed a Cylon within the collection, named Quantity Six, who performed a key function within the story as each antagonist and ally.

Helfer performed Quantity Six for 4 seasons of “Battlestar Galactica.” (Justin Stephens/Syfy/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures)

Relating to AI, the Canadian-born actress stated, “It’s not going away, so I believe it’s one thing that we’re going to must embrace. However I believe one of many issues ‘Battlestar Galactica’ did was warn about it. And that’s, I believe, one thing that we’d like to verify [is] that we now have is rules and an understanding of how rapidly and the way overwhelming this know-how might turn into.”

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A “Battlestar Galactica” reboot was within the works at Peacock with Sam Esmail, the showrunner behind “Mr. Robotic,” however it has since been halted and shopped elsewhere, per Selection.

“Battlestar Galactica” ran from 2004 to 2009 on the SyFy channel, incomes essential acclaim. (Artwork Streiber/Syfy/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Pictures)

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In 2023, Esmail spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how the brand new model’s view of AI could be evolving from the unique. 

“The world is altering manner too quick for us. I imply, after we began engaged on it, I clearly was conscious of AI, however now, 4 or 5 years later, it’s within the public consciousness and now that’s so influential in how we’re going to inform the story,” Esmail instructed the outlet. “The allegory piece is one thing that’s crystallized differently, too. The main focus is identical, which is the worry of tech and the way it would possibly take over, however this concept of simply ‘the robots are going to be our overlords’ is a really facile and overly simplistic manner of taking a look at it. Now that the viewers is extra refined concerning the penalties, I believe we now have to match that with ‘Battlestar.’”

“It’s a slippery slope between utilizing it to our benefit and having it perhaps be capable of management us a bit of bit.”

— Tricia Helfer

Whereas Helfer believes humanoid robots are nonetheless within the considerably distant future, there are some makes an attempt to create them within the current day.

Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, not too long ago labored with an AI firm referred to as Hollo to create a “twin” of his late spouse.

Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, labored with an AI firm to create a “twin” of his late spouse. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan)

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“I’m working with Hollo, an AI firm to create Suzanne AI. It’s very thrilling to consider with the ability to work together with Suzanne’s twin,” Hamel instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release final month.

The robotic duplicate of Somers educated on her movie and TV appearances, in addition to her books, to convey again the “essence” of the “Three’s Firm” star, in response to Hollo.AI CEO Rex Wong.

When it got here to the Suzanne AI, Wong stated, “The robotic, which we did in collaboration with Realbotix, is the primary of many AI variations of Suzanne, however AI Suzanne will also be accessible through name, chat and textual content. AI Suzanne highlights how we are able to prolong an individual’s legacy and convey it to the subsequent era, and one of many providers we might be rolling out would be the skill to protect one’s legacy for future generations or convey again a beloved one.” 

Hamel with the Suzanne Somers AI bot (Courtesy of Hollo.Ai)

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Somers died in 2023 after an extended battle with breast most cancers.

Hamel instructed the New York Submit that the concept for the Somers AI-powered bot “completely did come from her” and that “She could have identified her life was going to be shortened [after a lifelong battle with cancer].”