Robert Downey Jr. vows to sue over AI duplicates

Robert Downey Jr.’s movies can live on forever in the hearts of moviegoers, but he doesn’t want artificial intelligence-powered versions of himself creating new ones, he said recently in a recent appearance on the “Continuing with Kara Swisher“podcast.

Downey, 59, said he would sue any studios that try to recreate him digitally.

“I would like to say here that I intend to indict all future executives based on the specification alone,” Downey told host Kara Swisher, who then helpfully noted that he would be dead if that happened.

“But my law firm will still be very active,” he countered, laughing.

But Downey insisted he is not currently obsessed with the possibility of digital soul stealing after his death. His thoughts on AI and digital re-creation follow what he describes as ‘two tracks’.

“One of them is: how do I feel about everything that happens? And my answer is, I think about it minimally, because I have a real emotional life that doesn’t have much room for that,” Downey said.

He also said he’s not worried about the current Miracle executives “hijacking the soul of my character because there are 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.

You can hear the full podcast below (Downey’s AI comments start around the 35 minute mark).