Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast With Billy Ray And Todd Garner
Week 3: MIT’s Simon Johnson on A.I. (Takeaway for Writers: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid)
Week 3: MIT’s Simon Johnson on A.I. (Takeaway for Writers: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid)
Throughout the duration of the Writers Guild Strike, Deadline is running a weekly podcast called Strike Talk. Its co-hosts are Hollywood producer Todd Garner and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray. Via Deadline about Episode 3:
Ray warns picketing writers he has heard that the shows Daredevil and American Horror Story circulated bogus call sheets so that they could shoot late in the evening unencumbered by WGA picketers, and that a producer offered to fly a writer overseas discreetly to punch up a script for which they would be paid through Venmo. This gamesmanship is to be expected, but then come alarming scenarios involving A.I. and the possibility it can cut the number of writers — same as automated toll machines, cash registers and gas pumps have done to other industries.
Ray and Garner trade theories with renowned MIT professor and author Simon Johnson, who has become a go-to guy in the surge of A.I. and its potential to change the game for writers and actors.
Previous podcast episodes in the series:
Todd Garner and Billy Ray are two high-level figures in understanding what’s going on with this work stoppage. I strongly recommend you add Deadline Strike Talk to your podcast list and listen to it every week.
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