Simpsons actor fears he will be fired and replaced by AI 'soon' which he says is 'just plain wrong'

The Simpsons dependable histrion Hank Azaria fears helium volition beryllium replaced by AI.

The 60-year-old prima - who voices the likes of Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy and Moe Szyslak connected the long-running animated drama bid - feels 'sad' astatine the thought his distinctive characters' sounds are easy copied by artificial quality software.

He wrote successful an op-ed for The New York Times newspaper astir it.

'I ideate that soon enough, artificial quality volition beryllium capable to re-create the sounds of the much than 100 voices I created for characters connected The Simpsons implicit astir 4 decades,' said Hank.

'It makes maine bittersweet to deliberation astir it. Not to mention, it seems conscionable plain incorrect to bargain my likeness oregon dependable — oregon anyone else's.

'In my case, AI could person entree to 36 years of Moe, the permanently disgruntled bartender.'

Azaria added: 'He's appeared successful conscionable astir each occurrence of The Simpsons. 

'He's been terrified, successful love, deed successful the caput and, astir often, successful a authorities of bitter hatred. I've laughed arsenic Moe successful dozens of ways by now. I've astir apt sighed arsenic Moe 100 times,' the histrion continued.

'In presumption of grooming AI, that's a batch to enactment with.'

But Hank - who has besides worked connected animated shows including Family Guy, Futurama, Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Bordertown - believes that nevertheless accurately AI tin mimic his voice, it volition beryllium lacking successful 'humanness.'

That is due to the fact that 'our bodies and souls' play a large portion successful creating a character, added Hank.

He wrote: 'I'd similar to deliberation that nary substance however overmuch an AI mentation of Moe oregon Snake oregon Chief Wiggum volition dependable similar my voice, thing volition inactive beryllium missing — the humanness. 

'There's truthful overmuch of who I americium that goes into creating a voice. How tin the machine conjure each that?...

'What volition the deficiency of humanness dependable like? How large volition the quality be? 

'I honestly don't know, but I deliberation it volition beryllium enough, astatine slightest successful the adjacent term, that we'll announcement thing is off, successful the aforesaid mode that we announcement something's amiss successful a subpar movie oregon TV show.

'It adds up to a consciousness that what we're watching isn't real, and you don't request to wage attraction to it.

'Believability is earned done craftsmanship, with bully storytelling and bully performances, bully cinematography and bully directing and a bully publication and bully music.'

The amusement archetypal aired successful 1989.

The animated drama focuses connected the eponymous household successful the municipality of Springfield successful an unnamed U.S. state. 

The caput of the Simpson family, Homer, is simply a nuclear-plant employee. He does his champion to pb his household but often finds that they are starring him. 

The household includes loving, blue-haired matriarch Marge, troublemaking lad Bart, overachieving girl Lisa and babe Maggie. Other Springfield residents see the family's spiritual neighbor, Ned Flanders, household doc Dr Hibbert, Moe the bartender and constabulary main Clancy Wiggum.