No AI, thanks

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Many skilled professionals working within creative fields are unhappy about how AI is impacting their industry. They want to protect their work and the creative process from artificial intelligence because of fears over things like job protection, devaluation of skills, and a loss of control over their work.

Some small and medium-sized companies in other industries also say they plan to never use AI technology.

We discuss why that is, and ask whether those businesses that don’t embrace the technology may fall behind.

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Presented and produced by Hannah Mullane

(Picture: Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman, who runs the CREDO 23 film festival, which is billed as a non-AI event, in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Steven Meiers Dominguez)

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Hannah Malane.
0:13.0	All this week, we've been looking at how artificial intelligence or AI is changing the business world.
0:18.8	And in this, our final episode,
0:23.1	we'll hear from those choosing a different path.
0:27.4	There's no reason for me to ever use it, like to do what?
0:29.0	To write a script for me?
0:30.4	I am a screenwriter.
0:31.6	I love writing.
0:33.2	Why would I do that?
0:35.5	As artificial intelligence progresses,
0:38.9	we're seeing certain industries and businesses push back.
0:44.1	Authors are taking tech companies to court over copyright, artists are protesting,
0:49.9	and a number of small and medium-sized enterprises are saying they have no plans to ever use AI.
0:52.9	But will resisting the technology mean they fall behind.
0:55.1	They'll fall behind to their existing competitors,
0:59.0	and they'll fall behind to younger generations that will compete against them.
1:02.6	And they will also fall behind in recruiting good employees as well.
1:05.7	Today, we'll speak to people choosing not to use AI and discuss why some businesses might be against the technology.
1:09.7	That's all coming up on this episode of Business Daily.
1:16.0	Let me just start by saying that today's hearing
1:18.5	is about the largest intellectual property theft in American history.
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