Cate Blanchett feels "deeply concerned" about the potential influence of artificial intelligence (AI)

She told the BBC: "I'm looking at these robots and driverless cars and I don't really know what that's bringing anybody."

Cate - who is one of the best-known actresses in Hollywood - observed that the threat of AI is still "very real".

The Oscar-winning star said: "Forget whether they're an actor or not, if you've recorded yourself for three or four seconds your voice can be replicated."

Cate also believes AI has the potential to become "incredibly destructive".

She explained: "When you look at it one way it's creativity, but it's also incredibly destructive, which of course is the other side of it."

Meanwhile, fellow film star Ben Affleck recently insisted that movies will be "one of the last things" to be replaced by AI.

The 52-year-old actor believes AI can replicate the "more laborious, less creative" aspects of filmmaking - but Ben isn't worried about AI taking over Hollywood.

Speaking at CNBC's Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, Ben explained: "AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It cannot write you Shakespeare.

"The function of having two actors or three or four actors in a room and the taste to discern and construct ... that is something that currently entirely alludes AI's capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time.

"What AI is going to do is dis-intermediate the more laborious, less creative, and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier to entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people want to make 'Good Will Huntings' to go out and make it."