Fargo creator warns AI is a threat: Weve got a fight on our hands

“Fargo” series creator Noah Hawley is wary of the good and bad in artificial intelligence.“I’m a human being telling stories to human beings.Decency is not an algorithm.

Moral courage is not a formula.I don’t think we’re going to be able to replace our best work with a simulation of our best work.

So, on some level, I’m not worried about it,” he told Fox News Digital last month at the Primetime Emmy Awards.The show’s fifth season was nominated for six awards and took home one for outstanding supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie for Lamorne Morris.“On another level, as someone who engages a lot with the darkness of capitalism, I think we’ve got a fight on our hands,” Hawley added.The writer and director’s comments came before a series of AI bills crossed Gov.Gavin Newsom’s desk that addressed different needs.On Sept.

17, Newsom signed two bills supported by the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, that offered protection for actors’ likenesses, living and dead — AB 1836, which restricts the usage of AI to create digital replicas of dead performers without the consent of their estates, and AB 2602, which increases consent requirements for living performers for AI replicas.“We continue to wade through uncharted territory when it comes to how AI and digital media is transforming the entertainment industry, but our North Star has always been to protect workers.This legislation ensures the industry can continue thriving while strengthening protections for workers and how their likeness can or cannot be used,” Newsom said in a statement.SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher attended the signing.“It is a momentous day for SAG-AFTRA members and everyone else because the AI protections we fought so hard for last year are now expanded upon by California law thanks to the legislature and Gov.

Gavin Newsom,” Drescher said.“They say as California goes, so goes the nation.” Later in September, Newsom vetoed a separate bill...