Gal Gadot Defends AI Use in Bitcoin Film: 'Work With It or Be Out of the Game'

In brief

• Gal Gadot said the contract for "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi" took six months to negotiate, the longest she has worked on.
• She said SAG approached her lawyers for pointers on updating its own agreements to protect other actors.
• The $70 million film was shot in a bare warehouse, with its sets and lighting generated by AI.

“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot took on a role in a Bitcoin thriller produced with artificial intelligence tools despite her fears of the technology, she told the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

"I am afraid of AI, but I am going to be afraid and look away? No," the actor said, in comments reported by Variety. "The train has left the station. You're going to work with it or be out of the game completely. I am trying to make the best of it and protect what I can protect."

Gadot’s lawyers went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb in order to “protect” her from AI, she said. "This was the longest contract I have ever worked on," Gadot said of "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi," noting that her legal team took six months to “go through every scenario we could think about as far as the AI component of it."

"The AI component in this movie is for sets and the lighting," Gadot explained, noting that her performance is "all me" and that she “did not want AI to have anything to do with my performance.” Her lawyers focused on that element of her contract to such an extent that, “SAG called my lawyers to ask for pointers to update the SAG contract to protect other actors," she said.