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So, the TV director James Hawes has advised parliament’s tradition, media, and sport committee that inside three to 5 years, soaps will probably be created by synthetic intelligence (TV soaps may very well be made by AI inside three years, director warns, 22 February). He’s, after all, not the primary to make this prediction. Alan Ayckbourn’s Comedian Potential, first carried out on the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough in 1998, is a working example. He foresaw a time when soaps could be routinely carried out by robots, some so outdated and fault-ridden that performances not often went easily, and even coherently. Ayckbourn revisited the robotic theme in his 2023 play Fixed Companions, absolutely AI this time. The outlook for people in this isn’t brilliant. Certainly, Ayckbourn’s crystal ball has a behavior of seeing attainable future tendencies and points with alarming prescience. Not often comforting.
Yvonne Whalley
Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire
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