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King Author Sir, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can pose a threat to creative people kazuo ishiguro He said this while giving details of their conversation during a felicitation ceremony.
The 70-year-old Japanese-born author, who moved to Britain as a child, was made a Companion of Honor at the event for services to literature. Windsor Castle,
are describing their conversation with charlesHe said King raised the topic of AI and told him it was “important to keep battling on that front”.
Sir Kazuo told the PA news agency: “This is the third time they have given me something and they point to the fact that we will continue to do so.
“He asked me about my writing, and he really raised questions about AI and the threat AI poses to creative people.
“Obviously we didn’t have time to go into depth but he said he thought it was important to keep battling on that front.”
Sir Kazuo was one of several British stars who last year signed an open letter in protest against the “unlicensed use” of creative works for training generative AI, warning that it poses a “huge, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
He said on Tuesday: “I don’t necessarily object to using creative work in training AI, it’s the framework in which it’s done.
“I think many of us are concerned about the fact that copyright was completely violated.
“Our work was being taken, all my books have been taken to train AI, but if copyright can be respected it can be used in the way that, let’s say, a traditional researcher would use someone else’s book.
“Just because it’s AI, it shouldn’t be an excuse to raid people’s intellectual property.”
The author and screenwriter said however that he is “quite optimistic” about the “positive benefits” of AI.
“Different people involved in these campaigns have different ideas about AI,” he said. “Some people may be very negative about AI as a whole. I’m not.
“I think a lot of great things can come from this, but as a society we have to figure out how to do it in a controlled way so that it benefits people.
“I am quite optimistic about the positive benefits.”
Sir Kazuo is best known for 2005’s Never Let Me Go and 1989’s The Remains of the Day, for which he won the Man Booker Prize.
The Remains of the Day was his third novel and was adapted into a film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Emma Thompson, earning him both an Academy Award nomination and the 1993 adaptation a total of eight Oscars.
He is also a film writer and wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the 2022 film The Living, about a civil servant played by Bill Nighy who embraces life after he dies.
The Order of the Companions of Honor was established in 1917 by George V and is limited to 65 members at any one time. Appointments go to people who have made long-term contributions to the arts, science, medicine or government.
Sir Kazuo called the honor “amazing”.
He said of the ceremony: “It’s the first time I’ve been to Windsor Castle. It’s quite overwhelming. It’s really beautiful. So it’s great to have something like this in a place like this.”