The actor – most famous for his roles in Rocky and Rambo – predicts a dystopian world in which humans are ruled by AI because when ‘things are made too easy, people get soft’
Movie hero Sylvester Stallone fears the human race will be “taken over completely” by AI and that the computer programmes are going to make loneliness “10,000 times worse”.
The actor – most famous for his roles in Rocky and Rambo – predicts a dystopian world in which humans are ruled by AI because when “things are made too easy, people get soft.”
The star, who has appeared in more than 70 films over his career, said: “Now you have taxi cabs that drive themselves. Pretty soon you’re going to have sidewalks that move and people’s bodies will start to atrophy. I’m serious.
“It’s like, pretty soon we’re not going to have any legs. We’ll just be carried around by machinery.”
Stallone, 80, also spoke about his rivalry with fellow 80s action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, 79, and how the pair were “at each other’s throats”.
While the two are now friends, their legendary competitiveness lasted for 20 years. He said: “It wasn’t a joke. It was like life and death. We should have been together in the Roman Colosseum.
“It’s like when one fighter insults the other, he’s going to train so much to put a beating on the other. We needed each other, absolutely.”
Today Stallone, who stars in the fourth season of Tulsa King on Paramount+, has a very different relationship with powerful men his own age – including Donald Trump who appointed him as a ‘special ambassador’ to Hollywood last year.
Trump announced on Truth Social that Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight would be “my eyes and ears” in the industry to bring back business lost to “foreign countries”.
Stallone admits he found out about the role while watching TV. He said: “I went ‘what?’. I said ‘excuse me? Really?’ Because if they had asked me in the beginning I would have said this is not possible.
“Hollywood, I guess it’s like feudal states. They have their own little kingdoms. It’s corporate and corporate people won’t want to hear me tell them about finance.”