Last month, Townhall reported how the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists went on strike together over many issues, one being Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I. As Jacob noted, the guilds claimed that writers’ jobs are being taken and replaced by robotic scripts developed by A.I.
In a news conference last month, Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA stated that “artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions, and all actors and performers deserve contract language that protects them from having their identity and talent exploited without consent and pay.”
“If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines,” Drescher added.
A poll conducted by Ledger on behalf of the Los Angeles Times found that 45 percent of Americans are concerned about impact A.I. will have on their own line of work. Twenty-nine percent said they are not concerned (via the Los Angeles Times):
The level of concern is consistent across partisan lines and rises to 57% among 18- to 34-year-olds. Americans older than 55 were less likely to express concern about AI affecting their work.
Almost two-thirds of American adults said they thought entertainment unions were justified in making AI a centerpiece of their negotiating demands.
“This is [not just] a Hollywood phenomenon,” said Greg Cross, chief executive of the AI avatar startup Soul Machines. “AI is literally eating the world.”
As previously reported, the same polling showed more public sympathy for union members than the studios, streamers and networks.
Almost Half of Americans Are Worried AI Will Affect Their Job:
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Almost half of Americans, and 57% of those aged 18 to 34, are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on their jobs.
According to a poll by the Los Angeles Times.
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According to the poll write-up, 63 percent of U.S. consumers think governments need to regulate AI to reduce the risk of it replacing human jobs. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said that they think AI will inevitably replace some human jobs. Fifty-five percent support the government regulating the use of AI, and 73 percent support including a disclaimer with all AI-generated content so that it is clearly identified.
The poll surveyed 1,002 American adults between July 28 and July 30 with a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Last month, Mia noted how a popular A.I.-powered photograph enhancer is allegedly producing A.I.-generated child pornography with the faces of its users. And, Jacob noted how a horrifying new trend emerged recently, where A.I.-generated videos of crime victims explaining how they were killed circulated social media.