Tom Hanks thinks artificial intelligence could help keep his career alive, even after his death.

Speaking on The Adam Buxton Podcast, Hanks spoke on the future of AI in the film industry.

“What is a bona fide possibility right now, if I wanted to, [is] I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come,” Hanks mused.

He later added, “I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but my performances can go on and on and on.”

It’s difficult to imagine a Big-era Hanks returning to the screen a few decades from now to make his rom-com comeback.

Hanks went on to explain that he saw the first signs of AI was in 2004.

“The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer — literally what we looked like — was a movie called The Polar Express,” he explained. “We saw this coming, we saw that there was going to be this ability in order to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. Now, that has only grown a billion-fold since then and we see it everywhere.”

AI regulation is a major demand of the writers strike that began earlier this month, along with fairer compensation.

While writers are picketing for the right to protect their work and intellectual property from AI, Hanks said movie agents are increasingly including clauses in contracts that protect actors’ likenesses.

“I can tell you that there [are] discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies, and all of the legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else’s being our intellectual property,” he said.

We’ve already seen some of what a posthumous film career could look like, thanks to special effects. Consider Carrie Fisher‘s appearance in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, three years after her death. Though they ended up using footage they had filmed prior to her passing for The Force Awakens, much of what we see of her performance is visual effects.

Fisher’s family gave their blessing to include her in the movie as a final farewell for fans of the franchise.

Hanks could technically do the same with AI, though we hope that’s still some ways away.