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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Any eighties movie fans worth their wait and robot parts
- 0:06Speaker 2: recall the threat imagined in Terminator, the one to AI
- 0:08Speaker 2: would destroy civilization, But according to one legendary musician and scientist,
- 0:11Speaker 2: it may already be too late for music. Queen guitarist
- 0:14Speaker 2: Brian May, who's also an esteemed physicist, has taken issue
- 0:18Speaker 2: with the proposed amendment in his native UK that would
- 0:20Speaker 2: force artists to actively opt out of having their work
- 0:23Speaker 2: mind by AI to mimic it. He tells that Daily
- 0:25Speaker 2: Mail my fears that it's already too late. This theft
- 0:28Speaker 2: has already been performed and is unstoppable. Like so many
- 0:30Speaker 2: incursions that monstrously arrogant billionaire owners of AI and social
- 0:34Speaker 2: media are making into our lives, the future is already
- 0:37Speaker 2: forever changed. But I applaud this campaign to make the
- 0:39Speaker 2: public where it's being lost. I hope it succeeds in
- 0:42Speaker 2: putting on a break, because if not, nobody will be
- 0:45Speaker 2: able to afford to make music from here on. That's
- 0:47Speaker 2: Brian May from Queen. Brian also cautions that music may
- 0:51Speaker 2: topple first, but AI could eventually destroy things far more
- 0:54Speaker 2: critical to human survival than the arts. Time will tell.
- 0:57Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.