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<\/p>\nBlackadder legend Sir Tony Robinson has called for a halt in AI being used in the acting industry as Elon Musk warned the technology has the power to wipe out humanity.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the Bletchley Declaration saw 28 countries agreeing on a deal to regulate the technology during a UK-hosted summit where the X boss spoke. It comes as actors in the US are on strike, demanding better safeguards against AI being deployed to recreate their likeness.<\/p>\n
Tony says: "You either hand over performance to the technicians who will buy all of our images in some dreadful, devilish way and use them for whatever they want.<\/p>\n
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"Or we can continue to have human beings making art and television. I admire what the American actors and writers are doing – they\u2019re fighting our battle for us.<\/p>\n
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"If British television companies try to do the same thing the streamers are trying to do then we\u2019ll have to have a strike here as well." But the Time Team star can see some positives to the tech.<\/p>\n
He says: "There are a thousand wonderful creative ways in which AI could be used but stealing the lives, faces and talent of performers is not one of them. It will be helpful with history.<\/p>\n
"I would love to see Holbein\u2019s portrait of Henry VIII recreated once more in Hampton Court – what a wonderful thing that would be." Last year Tony made a documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of Blackadder and did a Comic Relief sketch as his character Baldrick. But he doesn\u2019t believe it is likely to return as a series.<\/p>\n
Tony, 77, says: "I doubt whether it\u2019ll ever come back again as a prime-time comedy terrestrial television series. Echoes of it will continue to happen I hope, for many years to come but we\u2019ve got to be realistic that all mediums have changed.<\/p>\n
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"There\u2019s still a lot of very good television being made, and actors and writers getting breaks that they wouldn\u2019t have done when I was young. It\u2019s very exciting to hear new voices."<\/p>\n
Last year archaeological show Time Team, which Tony presents, got a second lease of life moving to YouTube after ending on Channel 4 in 2014. He says: "I had always wanted us to be online 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
"There was a lot of talk in television circles to encourage a more active relationship between the virtual media and terrestrial television and it did not happen. Now we\u2019ve taken things into our own hands and have raised enough money to do three or four programmes a year.<\/p>\n
"Of course I would like to see it back on terrestrial television but I would want it to have all the bells and whistles we\u2019ve been creating since." Tony has teamed up with The National Lottery to present Esther Fox with her 2023 National Lottery award, which comes with \u00a3950,900 of funding.<\/p>\n
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Esther is project lead for Curating for Change, an England-wide heritage project which aims to tackle the underrepresentation of D\/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the museum workforce and exhibits. Tony says: "Almost every museum in the country is skint because of local authority cuts and Covid.<\/p>\n
"The great thing about Esther\u2019s initiative is it\u2019s not just about providing physical access like lifts, it\u2019s also about training people up to be curators who might have a disability. They\u2019re going to see the world in a different light to other people so their imagination is going to transform what we see in museums.<\/p>\n
"That way more people will be more attracted to go and see them and share the wonderful treasures." Sir Tony was proud to announce Esther as the winner of the Heritage category in this year\u2019s National Lottery Awards.<\/p>\n
The Awards are the annual search for the UK\u2019s favourite National Lottery-funded projects and celebrate the inspiring people and projects who do extraordinary things with National Lottery funding.<\/p>\n
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