AI PRESENTS PLUSES AND MINUSES IN NEW APPLE TV+ MYSTERY SERIES,'SUNNY,' STARRING RASHIDA JONES

As an actor and a writer, Rashida Jones has spent a lot of time thinking about artificial intelligence.

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The use of AI was a major issue at the bargaining table during last year’s Hollywood strikes. AI is also front and center in her new series “Sunny” for Apple TV+.

“My feeling today — because it changes every day — is it’s here and there’s no going back. There’s an inevitability that we have to accept,” Jones said. “We need some kind of collective ethical parameters about how we use this because it is pretty scary... It’s out of our control at this point.”

In ‘Sunny,” Jones plays Suzie, an expat in Japan whose husband Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima of “Drive My Car,”) and son Zen are missing after a plane crash. She is gifted a companion robot named Sunny as a condolence gift from Masa’s employer.