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The 149-day-long writers Guild of America (WGA) strike by 11,500 Hollywood screenwriters is one of the most important strikes in decades because it tamed the Hollywood corporate beast. Along with the 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union still on strike after nearly three months, the writers’ strike was perhaps the largest strike explicitly directed at the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) to human workers. After decades of disturbing dystopian film plots about humans being wiped out by AI and robots being smarter than us, the very people who wrote and acted in them saw AI coming for their own jobs. While such films once helped us work through our anxieties with this technology, today those who make them are living it. The strikes began only months after the high-profile release of Open AI’s ChatGPT reignited a global conversation about the impact of artificial intelligence on work. Along with other publicly available AI, such as the graphics generator Dall-E owned by the same company, AI now appears poised to do many kinds of work once thought exclusive to humans.
These developments are prompting an anxious discussion about the future of labor. AI is already being integrated into a wide range of jobs, including making hamburgers, caring for the sick, writing papers, doing complex math and computer coding,...
Congress leaders Harshwardhan Sapkal and Nana Patole, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) legislator Rohit Pawar, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said PM Modi's sp...