Scarlett Johansson is speaking out about the reasons she turned down the job of voicing OpenAI’s chatbot.
Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reached out to the 39-year-old actress about potentially hiring her to voice the ChatGPT 4.0 system.
In an interview with The New York Times, Johansson, who voiced the character of Samantha, an artificial intelligence virtual assistant in the 2013 film “Her,” recalled that she said, “No, thank you. Not for me,” when Altman approached her about the gig.
“I felt I did not want to be at the forefront of that,” Johansson told the Times. “I just felt it went against my core values.”
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Johansson explained that concerns about her children’s reaction also factored into her decision to refuse the project.
“The Avengers” star shares a daughter, 9, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, 42, and son Cosmo, 2, with husband …