AI expert Marva Bailer explains how the average person has more access than ever to create deepfakes of celebrities even though there are laws in place. With the writers and actors strikes in the past and a new year just beginning, Hollywood executives are still pondering the future of artificial intelligence in entertainment. In a roundtable interview with the Los Angeles Times, several executives weighed in with their concerns about the technology. Jonathan Glickman, founder and CEO of Panoramic Media Co., said that at the moment "I don't think it's really going to affect the writing process very much for the near future, just because the quality is so far below anything that an audience would stand for." However, while creativity may be hard to duplicate, certain behind-the-scenes jobs that are somewhere between technical and creative could be affected.

Marva Bailer, a tech executive, author, and speaker, shares why utilizing AI may be more expensive than physical actors. "Super Mario Bros." star Jack Black is feeling positive about the future with artificial intelligence, even with lingering concerns over the technology in the industry. "It's so new that it's hard to really say what the future holds, but I don't have all doom and gloom," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't feel like, 'Oh no, it's going to be like Terminator where it comes and destroys all the human jobs.' I'm not convinced about that because I can admit, I don't know, and I'm hoping that it's going to be a great new world and that it's going to be a tool that all of us can use to make ourselves better and make the world better."

Artificial intelligence is widely viewed as a threat to jobs. But this view has some important caveats. "It'll be a threat to certain kinds of jobs, but it will also be creating newer types of jobs," said Carmine Di Sibio, EY's global managing partner for client service. Di Sibio said EY has developed AI technology that can read contracts. "We are deploying it already on lease agreements," he said.

It could be here in a few years' time, another sign of the ever-faster technological changes that are reshaping our world. But will the march of technology and AI come at a price? Will it cost you your job? Let us start the week in outer space, where – to misquote Ming the Merciless – the puny earthlings have hurled a car into the void. At the beginning of this month, the Falcon Heavy was launched.