Nicolas Cage spoke out against letting AI infiltrate acting after winning best actor for "Dream Scenario" at the Saturn Awards on Sunday.

Nicolas Cage warned against using AI in any capacity, stating that it opens the floodgates for more artificial creativity and threatens film and art.

Nicolas Cage won a Saturn Award for his work in A24's "Dream Scenario," a surrealist comedy that saw the performer playing a college professor whose dreams infect the masses. He used part of his acceptance speech to warn against the dangers of artificial intelligence.

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Several voice actors have rallied against it, including Grand Theft Auto 5's Ned Luke who called out a chatbot which used his voice. The Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle also told IGN that AI was "inevitable" but "dangerous", sharing in Luke's assessment that chatbots and similar uses are "effectively robbing [voice actors] of income."

Many public figures have spoken out against AI in the past, including David Attenborough, who bluntly responded to the unauthorized cloning of his legendary voice after it was discovered in YouTube news reports, and the late Robin Williams ' daughter, Zelda, who slammed faux audio bites of her father's voice as "personally disturbing."

Nicolas Cage has begged other actors not to let AI "manipulate" their performances. The Face/Off star took to the stage at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, California on Sunday (Feb 2) to accept the best actor in a film prize for his role in Dream Scenario — and after thanking his director Kristoffer Borgli,

The "Dream Scenario" star delivered an impassioned plea to fellow actors and filmmakers Sunday about "not letting robots dream for us."

During his Saturn Awards acceptance speech for his role in Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage warned everyone of the dangers of AI.

Nicolas Cage warns his Saturn Awards audience of the dangers of artificial intelligence, describing the emerging technology as “disturbing.”

The fight against the infiltration of AI is not new, nor is it necessarily surprising. However, it is rapidly becoming more commonplace and prevalent. With the rise of ChatGPT in the workforce (and even in everyday life),