A letter signed by more than 80 performers, including Hugh Bonneville, Sandi Thom and Derry Girls' Siobhan McSweeney, asks Prime Minister Andy Burnham for legislation stopping people's voices being cloned or used for AI training without consent.
Audiobook narrator Alice Sockett, who co-founded the campaign, calls cloning an existential threat to narration. McSweeney says the government is falling behind the technology.
A government spokesperson told the BBC that digital replicas have creative uses but can do harm, and promised a consultation. Lawyers had already warned that UK law doesn't fully protect a person's voice or likeness.
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