Legendary dancer and maraca-playing frontman says no-one’s position is safe from the march of the robots as he reckons he could lose his job to an artificial intelligent bot
Happy Mondays’ wildman Bez reckons he could lose his job to an AI bot.
The legendary dancer and maraca-playing frontman said no-one’s position was safe from the march of the robots. Bez, 61, who in his book told how he once ‘dripped’ acid in his cut forehead after falling off stage then ‘ran back out with me shakers…f***** raz’, said a bot could play a rock wildman.
Asked by The Big Issue if he thought his job was at risk from AI the former Celebrity Big Brother champ said: “You know what, possibly. I thought, ‘no way could AI actually do that’.
“But it can just rob everyone and anybody’s life.
“It’s unbelievable that we’re actually witnessing the AI takeover – like War of the Worlds unfolding in front of your eyes – and everyone’s invited it in to be the personal assistant.”
The son of a detective inspector, it unlikely many bots will experience the colourful life of Bez – real name Mark Berry.
A beekeeper and beer brewer in his spare time he has lived on land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales and twice been declared bankrupt in 2005 and 2008.
In 2010 he was convicted of assaulting and threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and was jailed for four weeks after refusing to cooperate with a community service sentence.
In 2014 he became a patron of homeless organisation Coffee4Craig and in the general election the following year stood to become MP for Salford and Eccles on a ‘free energy, free good and free anything’ platform, losing to Labour candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey.
In 2021 – during the third Covid lockdown – he launched a career as an online fitness instructor producing YouTube content under the title ‘Buzzin’ with Bez’.
When he married his fitness instructor partner Firouzeh Razavi in 2022 he made a wooden Stonehenge for a Game of Thrones-style ceremony.
In ITV2 reality series Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie Bez’s tasks involved taking on the world’s biggest bungee down the front of the dam which featured in James Bond movie GoldenEye, building an ice hotel in the mountains and jumping from one cable car to another.
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