Catherine Zeta-Jones Comments On Actors “Giving Themselves Over” To AI, Prefers “Real People” — SkimNews
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- Catherine Zeta-Jones told the Associated Press she prefers watching "real people talk" on stage and screen, calling it "everyone's choice" when actors license themselves to AI companies.
- Zeta-Jones said she likes not knowing actors' private lives — "who they're sleeping with, what they wore" — and wants to be "taken away" by a character instead.
- Zeta-Jones's remarks land alongside AI researchers' warnings that the technology could "cause a billion deaths," plus ongoing concerns about AI plagiarism of copyrighted material and Hollywood job losses.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order last month fast-tracking AI oversight, convening world-leading experts within 60 days to draft "safety plans" and an emergency "kill switch" for frontier models.
- President Trump has brushed off AI concerns as "a hoax," claiming the U.S. government already has "tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power" over AI companies.
Why it matters: An Oscar-winning star publicly backing human performers adds cultural pressure on studios weighing AI replicas, while California builds a frontier-model kill switch and the federal government dismisses the risk as a hoax — leaving Hollywood caught between competing regulatory directions with no unified rule on AI likeness rights.
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