Actors and writers on strike grapple with threat posed by AI

SAG-AFTRA members picket outside of Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos. The Screen Actors Guild joined the Writers Guild of America, who have been engaged on the frontlines of this dispute with studios since May 2nd, 2023. Its also the first time the two unions have been on a simultaneous strike since 1960. 

At the heart of the strikes is something that is familiar to many of us: Financial stability. But there's something new in there that we're having to grapple with these days: Artificial intelligence, and the role it will play in our lives. 

With negotiations between the unions and the studios currently at a standstill what does this mean for Hollywood going forwards. when all is said and done will there still be a space for those who dream of making it big on the silver, and even the smaller screen. 

To make sense of all of this KCBS Radio's Mary Huges turns to Kate Fortmueller, Associate Professor of Film and Media History at Georgia State University.