Robert Downey Jr. appeared in a recent episode of Podcast “With Kara Swisher” and sent a stern warning to Hollywood in the age of AI: “I intend to demand all future executives” approve the creation of a digital replica of Downey. The Oscar winner does not want his image to be used on screen using artificial intelligence technology and/or deepfakes. The topic arose in relation to Downey’s tenure at Marvel as Iron Man, but he is confident that Marvel would not recreate his Tony Stark through AI.

“There are two clues. How do I feel about everything that is happening? I’m minimally sorry because I have a real emotional life that’s going on that doesn’t have a lot of room for that,” Downey said when asked about being digitally recreated in the future.

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“Going back to the MCU, I’m not worried about them taking my character’s soul because there are like three or four guys and girls who make all the decisions there anyway and they would never do that to me, with or without me,” he said. aggregate.

When host Kara Swisher said that “future executives will certainly want” to digitally recreate Downey on the big screen, the actor responded: “Well, you’re right. I would like to state here that I intend to sue all future executives based on specifications alone.”

“You’ll be dead,” Swisher noted, to which Downey responded, “But my law firm will still be very active.”

Downey is currently taking on the future of AI on Broadway in the play “McNeal,” which takes aim at corporate giants in the AI ​​space, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

“I don’t envy anyone who has been overly identified with the advent of this new phase of the information age. The idea that it somehow belongs to them because they have these huge startups is a fallacy,” Downey told Swisher of figures like Altman. “The problem is when these individuals believe they are the arbiters of management but, in the meantime, want and/or need to be seen in a favorable light. That’s a huge fucking mistake. It discourages me and makes me not want to interact with them because they are not being honest.”

Downey is currently preparing to return to Marvel, but he will do so as a human being and not as a digital replica of Tony Stark. In reality, he won’t be playing Tony Stark/Iron Man at all, but instead will take on the role of the villainous Doctor Doom starting in 2026’s “Avengers: Doomsday.”

Listen to Downey’s full interview on the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast here.

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