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Members of the Screen Actors Guild have joined the Writers Guild of America to walk the picket line — making this strike the biggest Hollywood has seen in decades. VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Members of the Screen Actors Guild have joined the Writers Guild of America to walk the picket line — making this strike the biggest Hollywood has seen in decades.
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty ImagesThe unions representing actors and writers in Hollywood have some differences in what they want from the big film studios. But one thing they agree on is the threat posed by artificial intelligence to their members' livelihoods.
The threat of AI is something Hollywood was imagining long before it was real. NPR arts critic Bob Mondello tells the story of how AI became a movie villain.
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This episode was produced by Brianna Scott and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento with engineering from Ted Mebane. It was edited by Ciera Crawford and William Troop. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
