What are Hollywood actors and writers afraid of? A cinema scholar explains how AI is upending the movie and TV business

Hollywood writers picket in front of Warner Bros. Studios.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Holly Willis, University of Southern California The bitter conflict between actors, writers and other creative professionals and the major movie and TV studios represents a flashpoint in the radical transformation roiling the entertainment industry. The ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild were sparked in part by artificial intelligence and its use in the movie industry. Both actors and writers fear that the major studios, including Amazon/MGM, Apple, Disney/ABC/Fox, NB...