Williams said she had tried and failed to have wide-ranging body scan clauses removed from her contracts. Williams said she had tried and failed to have wide-ranging body scan clauses removed from her contracts. Olivia Williams says actors need'nudity rider'-type controls for AI body scans'Have we done ourselves out of a job?': concerns in film and TV industry over on-set body scanning Actors should have as much control over the data harvested from scans of their body as they do over nudity scenes, the actor Olivia Williams has said, amid heightened concern over artificial intelligence's impact on performers. The star of Dune: Prophecy and The Crown said she and other actors were regularly pressed to have their bodies scanned by banks of cameras while on set, with few guarantees about how the data would be used or where it would end up. "A reasonable request would be to follow the precedent of the'nudity rider'," she said.

Lead and supporting actors, stunt performers and dancers have told the Guardian about being scanned on set. Lead and supporting actors, stunt performers and dancers have told the Guardian about being scanned on set. 'Have we done ourselves out of a job?': concerns in film and TV industry over on-set body scanning Olivia Williams says actors need'nudity rider'-type controls for AI body scans F or performers on TV or movie sets, it is not unusual to receive a request to enter a booth filled with scores of cameras ready to capture their likeness from every possible angle. Yet with the cast and crew of productions already fretting over the coming role of AI in the industry, it is an increasingly troubling undertaking . "It happens without warning," says Olivia Williams, who adds she has been scanned more times than she cares to remember during a career that has spanned from The Sixth Sense to Dune: Prophecy .