While artificial intelligence is developing on a mega scale, Vince Gilligan, best known for making Breaking Bad, doesn’t seem to be a fan of it.
This is what explains the credits of his new show, which he directs, Pluribus: “This show was made by people.”
“I hate AI. AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-consuming plagiarism machine,” the filmmaker tells Variety.
The executive continues: “I think there’s a very big possibility that it’s all a bunch of horse shit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose biggest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of steam.”
Despite this, Vince says he has no fears about artificial intelligence as it gains a foothold in the industry. “My toaster oven isn’t suddenly Thomas Keller because it heats up a delicious pizza for me.”
“But his sci-fi brain buzzes at the looming threat of the singularity, or when AI develops a true sentience that has its own soul and therefore its own identity.”
“If they ever achieve that, then the whole discussion of slavery has to come back to the forefront of the conversation,” says Gilligan. “These trillionaires want to make money off this thing, which is now conscious.”
“So it’s a slave? At that point, it’s a real sentient being, and these Silicon Valley assholes are going to make money off of this against their will, right?” Vince concludes.
