Perhaps fears of an AI takeover of the human race have been slightly overblown.
Tilly Norwood, an actress created entirely by artificial intelligence, glitched during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, suddenly switching from English to Chinese while speaking with the host and accomplished Scottish actor Tom Conti.
Norwood, a computer-generated performer being promoted as a new kind of Hollywood star, answered questions about her upcoming film before going silent and then speaking in a different tongue.
Morgan asked why it happened, and Norwood called the episode little more than a programming “hiccup.”
"I certainly didn't mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?" she responded.
Morgan, ever the inquisitive journalist, asked, "How often do you just randomly start talking Chinese when you're talking to two English people?"
The look on Conti and Morgan's faces when the AI actress begins speaking fluent Chinese is priceless.
EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti...
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) September 18, 2026
Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST)👇
📺 https://t.co/1nTb79BH8D@piersmorgan | @TillyNorwoodX pic.twitter.com/DDkveWvVzz
I mean, this couldn't be more on the nose. We've got AI presenting itself as a harmless entity, with the backdrop of China running a propaganda machine to steer the rest of the world away from reaping the benefits of the technology, only for the lovely young actress to be revealed as a secret product of the CCP.
I'm being a bit facetious here, of course. Dutch producer Eline Van der Velden created Norwood in 2025 through a London-based company. She was built to speak 30-plus languages.
What are the odds she slipped into Mandarin, though?
Don't worry, she "certainly didn't mean to start speaking Chinese."
We bet you didn't, Tilly. We bet you didn't. Oz never meant for the purple curtain to be peeled back either.
Norwood's hilarious glitch comes as researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic warn that leading labs are charging blindly toward AI systems they secretly worry might slip beyond control and "could kill us (humans) all by the end of the decade."
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. https://t.co/QAIHiFP3QZ
— Evan Hubinger (@EvanHub) September 9, 2026
President Trump has dismissed the sensational warnings as a coordinated effort to force the United States to introduce onerous AI regulations while China continues to develop the technology.
He called those promoting the anti-AI messaging "traitors" among other things.
"We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!" he wrote on Truth Social. "There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!"
"We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so," added Trump. "Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!"
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 14, 2026
It might be easy to laugh and dismiss the AI actress failing to stay in English for a very short segment. But it's a good reminder that the technology is half-baked, and that too much of the AI future is being built, trained, and controlled in places that don’t share our interests.
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