Jennifer Hale, the voice actor behind iconic video game characters like Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard, is speaking out about the potential dangers of generative AI. Hale’s career as a voice actor stretches back into the late 1980s, with a laundry list of roles in cartoons and video games. Aside from the female version of Commander Shepard in the first three Mass Effect games, Jennifer Hale has also lent her voice to Naomi Hunter in Metal Gear Solid, Bastila Shan in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Rivet in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart among numerous others.
In recent years, Jennifer Hale has joined many other professional voice actors in addressing the rising prominence of generative AI, which has generated plenty of controversy due to these programs' ability to replicate an existing person’s voice without their permission. There is also concern that developers could use AI to replace human voice actors altogether, an issue that has led to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announcing a strike against some of the biggest developers in the US on July 25.
While it would mean a lot to fans for Commander Shepard to...
