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BBC Greenlights “Real Life ‘Black Mirror'” Doc About Artificial Intelligence As Factual Chief Jack Bootle Urges Competitors To Make More Science Shows
The BBC is making 'Black Mirror'-style shows with Chris McCausland & Hannah Fry on AI & tech as science chief Jack Bootle talks artificial intelligence
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC ’s head of science and natural history has greenlit a “real life Black Mirror ”-style documentary series about AI while revealing his red lines when it comes to using artificial intelligence to make TV shows. In advance of the event, Bootle sat down with Deadline and revealed new show AI Confidential with Hannah Fry[working title], which he described as like a “real life Black Mirror” in reference to Charlie Brooker’s dystopian Netflix smash about the dangers of technology. He cited two examples, one being Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has promoted debunked theories connecting vaccines with autism, and another being how his social media feed is “absolutely full of people telling me, as a man in his 40s, to take testosterone.” “Things like this happen every day and I wake up in this sea of confusion,” added Bootle.
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