A human-shaped robot called Ameca will lead the programme which will cover the highs and lows of the year gone by.
The broadcast, which will run after the King’s annual Christmas message at 3pm, will also see the robot being questioned about humans.
According to Channel 4, Ameca says we should be “neither happy nor sad about 2022” and “take it as a learning opportunity, a chance to change the way we think about the world and a reminder to help those in need whenever we can.”
Engineered Arts, a British company based in Cornwall, developed the robot which is capable of ultra-realistic reactions and can smile or frown, blink, scrunch its nose and even wink.
The speech will use AI software that generates answers from millions of different inputs to give a human-like response, and nothing Ameca says has been written or scripted by a human.
Channel 4’s chief content officer, Ian Katz, comments: “As we look to a future in which artificial intelligence is set...