‘Battlestar Galactica’ star says show’s AI warnings more timely as sci-fi fantasies come to life

BEVERLY HILLS Calif Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer feels the show was a prescient warning about artificial intelligence when it debuted more than years ago We did warn against AI while we were shooting it Helfer narrated Fox News Digital at the Beverly Hills Film Festival this week She continued It was years ago and I ve in recent months re-watched it and went Oh my gosh it s even more relevant now So I think we just really need to be careful It s a slippery slope between using it to our advantage and having it maybe be able to control us a little bit I think we re a little bit far off from the humanoid Cylons yet and humanoid robots but I don t know they re coming Helfer added WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Battlestar Galactica debuted on the SyFy channel in reimagined from the original series and follows the battle between humans and Cylons the humanoid sentient robots humans created that turned on them and launched a nuclear attack that nearly wiped out the entirety of humanity Helfer played a Cylon in the series named Number Six who played a key role in the story as both antagonist and ally Regarding AI the Canadian-born actress reported It s not going away so I think it s something that we re going to have to embrace But I think one of the things 'Battlestar Galactica' did was warn about it And that s I think something that we need to make sure is that we have is regulations and an understanding of how fleetly and how overwhelming this device could become WATCH Battlestar Galactica star says show s AI warnings more relevant than everA Battlestar Galactica reboot was in the works at Peacock with Sam Esmail the showrunner behind Mr Robot but it has since been halted and shopped elsewhere per Variety CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERIn Esmail spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how the new version s view of AI would be evolving from the original The world is changing way too fast for us I mean when we started working on it I obviously was aware of AI but now four or five years later it s in the general consciousness and now that s so influential in how we re going to tell the story Esmail notified the outlet The allegory piece is something that is crystallized in a different way too The focus is the same which is the fear of tech and how it might take over but this idea of just the robots are going to be our overlords is a very facile and overly simplistic way of looking at it Now that the audience is more sophisticated about the consequences I think we have to match that with Battlestar While Helfer believes humanoid robots are still in the somewhat distant future there are selected attempts to create them in the present day Suzanne Somers' widower Alan Hamel just now worked with an AI company called Hollo to create a twin of his late wife LIKE WHAT YOU RE READING CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS I am working with Hollo an AI company to create Suzanne AI It s very exciting to think about being able to interact with Suzanne s twin Hamel communicated Fox News Digital in a declaration last month The robot replica of Somers trained on her film and TV appearances as well as her books to bring back the essence of the Three s Company star according to Hollo AI CEO Rex Wong When it came to the Suzanne AI Wong declared The robot which we did in collaboration with Realbotix is the first of multiple AI versions of Suzanne but AI Suzanne can also be accessible via call chat and text AI Suzanne highlights how we can extend a person's legacy and bring it to the next generation and one of the services we will be rolling out will be the ability to preserve one's legacy for future generations or bring back a loved one Somers died in after a long battle with breast cancer Hamel narrated the New York Post that the idea for the Somers AI-powered bot absolutely did come from her and that She may have known her life was going to be shortened after a lifelong battle with cancer