‘One Life’ director predicts AI-generated shows are ‘inevitable,’ could be here in 3-5 years

British director James Hawes, who has worked on series like "Slow Horses" with Gary Oldman, spoke in front of the House of Commons about the impact of AI on film and television.

"The best guess is that in between three and five years’ time, somebody will be able to say, ‘Create me a scene in an ER room where a doctor comes in. He’s having an affair with a woman, so they’re flirting and somebody’s dying on the table,’ and it will start to create it," he said. 

"You will build that, and it will be generative AI. It might not be as polished as we have been used to, but that is how close we are getting. I found that hard to believe for all the creatives involved, but I believe the genie is out of the bottle and we have to live with this."