From the TIME100 Impact Awards in Dubai, we ask our guests: What’s the science-fiction book or film or piece of art that you think best represents the most likely AI future?
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00:00 I really like her, which I think is a popular answer because it somehow symbolizes the loneliness we feel in an increasingly connected world.
00:09 For me it's Star Trek because in Star Trek the humans are making the decisions, still flying the plane, and the AI is there to help them.
00:19 I'm from planet Tatooine, so I grew up in the Sahara, and so definitely the story of Star Wars, this sort of concept of like the Force can be for good or for evil, and it's all about what you do, deeply influenced me.
00:35 2001 A Space Odyssey. I saw the movie when I was nine, it was talking about everything I was fascinated by when I was a kid, you know, space travel, how intelligence in humans appeared, which you know, 2001 has some theory about, and then intelligent machines.
00:52 Like all three things that I was really totally fascinated by, I thought it was an amazing movie, and I read the book afterwards.
00:59 I think a masterpiece is 2001 A Space Odyssey, and obviously there's an intimidating factor in that, but all of the concepts of how these tools will challenge us, I believe in the opposition.
01:10 I come from chess, I come from art, and I like how this technology can actually test us.
01:15 I think when you lean into that, that's when the most exciting new things happen, and it's films and speculation like sci-fi that we have to kind of take it away from now and realize this is here, it's real.
01:27 And when you embrace it, new things can happen.
01:30 I did a job called Caprica, it's a prequel to Battlestar Galactica. In this, computers replicated humans, created avatars in another world, and it's interesting, we created humans, skin suits, you know, that were almost identical, robots that were identical.
01:48 And the thing about that is it always asks, "What is it to be human? What is it to cry at a sunset or a painting? What is it to be flawed in some perfect way?"
02:00 That to me is, you know, I'm very proud of the work on that show and the people involved.
02:06 I don't have an AI book, but my reference is always Black Mirror, the series that have always portrayed AI much, much before all of this, you know, like, evanescence of what's happening.
02:19 So I think that we should go back to the series from time to time.
02:22 time.