'Battlestar Galactica' star calls present's AI warning extra related than ever

[ad_1] BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — " Battlestar Galactica" star Tricia Helfer feels the present was a prescient warning about artificial intelligence when it debuted greater than 20 years in the past.

"We did warn towards AI whereas we have been capturing it," Helfer informed Fox Information Digital on the Beverly Hills Movie Competition this week.

She continued, "It was 20 years in the past, and I’ve just lately re-watched it and went, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s much more related now.’ So I feel we simply actually must be cautious. It’s a slippery slope between utilizing it to our benefit and having it possibly be capable to management us a bit bit."

"I feel we’re a bit bit far off from the humanoid Cylons but and humanoid robots, however I don’t know, they’re coming," Helfer added.

"Battlestar Galactica" star Tricia Helfer warns AI could be a "slippery slope" for humanity. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Photos)

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"Battlestar Galactica" debuted on the SyFy channel in 2004, reimagined from the 1978 unique sequence, and follows the battle between people and Cylons, the humanoid sentient robots people created that turned on them and launched a nuclear assault that almost worn out everything of humanity.

Helfer performed a Cylon within the sequence, named Quantity Six, who performed a key position within the story as each antagonist and ally.

Helfer performed Quantity Six for 4 seasons of "Battlestar Galactica." (Justin Stephens/Syfy/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photos)

Concerning AI, the Canadian-born actress mentioned, "It’s not going away, so I feel it’s one thing that we’re going to need to embrace. However I feel one of many issues 'Battlestar Galactica' did was warn about it. And that’s, I feel, one thing that we'd like to ensure [is] that we now have is rules and an understanding of how rapidly and the way overwhelming this expertise may develop into."

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A "Battlestar Galactica" reboot was within the works at Peacock with Sam Esmail, the showrunner behind "Mr. Robotic," nevertheless it has since been halted and shopped elsewhere, per Variety .

<img src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/04/1200/675/battlestargalacticacast.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" alt="Edward James Olmos as William Adama, Tricia Helfer as Number Six, James Callis as Gaius Baltar, Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon, Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin, Grace Park as Sharon Valerii, Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama, Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh, Aaron Douglas as Tyrol from "Battlestar Galactica."" width="1200" height="675"/> "Battlestar Galactica" ran from 2004 to 2009 on the SyFy channel, incomes crucial acclaim. (Artwork Streiber/Syfy/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photos)

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In 2023, Esmail spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how the brand new model’s view of AI could be evolving from the unique.

"The world is altering means too quick for us. I imply, after we began engaged on it, I clearly was conscious of AI, however now, 4 or 5 years later, it’s within the public consciousness and now that’s so influential in how we’re going to inform the story," Esmail informed the outlet. "The allegory piece is one thing that's crystallized another way, too. The main focus is identical, which is the worry of tech and the way it would possibly take over, however this concept of simply ‘the robots are going to be our overlords’ is a really facile and overly simplistic means of it. Now that the viewers is extra subtle concerning the penalties, I feel we now have to match that with ‘Battlestar.’"

"It’s a slippery slope between utilizing it to our benefit and having it possibly be capable to management us a bit bit."

— Tricia Helfer Whereas Helfer believes humanoid robots are nonetheless within the considerably distant future, there are some makes an attempt to create them within the current day.

Suzanne Somers' widower, Alan Hamel, just lately labored with an AI firm known as Hollo to create a "twin" of his late spouse.

Suzanne Somers' widower, Alan Hamel, labored with an AI firm to create a "twin" of his late spouse. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan)

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" I'm working with Hollo, an AI firm to create Suzanne AI. It’s very thrilling to consider with the ability to work together with Suzanne’s twin," Hamel informed Fox Information Digital in a press release final month.

The robotic reproduction of Somers educated on her movie and TV appearances, in addition to her books, to deliver again the "essence" of the "Three’s Company" star, in keeping with Hollo.AI CEO Rex Wong.

When it got here to the Suzanne AI, Wong mentioned, "The robotic, which we did in collaboration with Realbotix, is the primary of many AI variations of Suzanne, however AI Suzanne may also be accessible by way of name, chat and textual content. AI Suzanne highlights how we are able to prolong an individual's legacy and produce it to the subsequent era, and one of many companies we shall be rolling out would be the potential to protect one's legacy for future generations or deliver again a cherished one."

Hamel with the Suzanne Somers AI bot (Courtesy of Hollo.Ai)

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Somers died in 2023 after a protracted battle with breast most cancers.

Hamel informed the New York Put up that the concept for the Somers AI-powered bot "completely did come from her" and that "She could have recognized her life was going to be shortened [after a lifelong battle with cancer]."