Robert Downey Jr. Will Sue Anyone Who Replicates His Likeness Using AI [Video]

Robert Downey Jr. is making it clear he does not want his likeness to be recreated via artificial intelligence in the future.

While Downey Jr., 59, appeared on the Monday, Oct. 21 episode of the On with Kara Swisher podcast with his McNeal playwright Ayad Akhtar and director Bartlett Sher to discuss his recent Broadway debut, the actor quipped that he “intend[s] to sue all future executives on spec” for any attempts to create a digital replication of him for movies in the future. 

“I will say this — there’s two tracks,” he said, when asked how he feels about the idea of digital recreation using AI and how it applies to McNeal, which revolves around a character obsessed with the technology.

“One is — how do I feel about everything that’s going on, and my answer is I feel about it minimally because I have an actual emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have a lot of …