Robert Downey Jr.had a clear answer when asked about AI recently.
“There’s two tracks,” he said this month on the podcastOn with Kara Swisher.
“How do I feel about everything that’s going on?
Robert Downey Jr. promotes ‘Iron Man 3’ in 2013.Karwai Tang/Getty
His answer was more specific when it came toMarvel, the brand behind hisIron Manmovies.
Swisher insisted that “future executives certainly will” want to exploit his image.
One of the things actors demanded in last year’s strike wasguardrails against artificial intelligence.
“Just on spec.”
Downey himselfput it this way at 2024’s San Diego Comic-Con: “New mask, same task.
What can I say, I like playing complicated characters.”
