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The drama about AI in Hollywood

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Film-maker Justine Bateman on why she and her Hollywood colleagues fear AI will take their jobs. Drug safety campaigner Dominic Milton Trott on why he's taken his message to the darknet. And Shiona McCallum talks to the Romanian-American computer scientist Ion Stoica about AI, gender equality and what it's like being a billionaire

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1:08.9

I'm Zoe Kleinman and this is TechLife, where this week will learn why a drug safety expert has been taking his message to the dark web and how you become a tech billionaire by accident.

1:20.4

But our main story is the drama about AI in the film industry.

1:24.3

It's the same thing for the writers, the directors, for everyone, the crew members,

1:28.5

the prop masters, that are teamster drivers.

1:33.0

If AI use proliferates the entertainment industry, it will crater the entire structure

1:38.7

of this business, like this.

1:41.1

This. Like this.

2:02.5

So in a moment why the stage is set in the world of cinema for a huge row over AI.

2:11.2

But first, Teclius Alistair Keane joins me because, just as we're recording the show, we have a fresh warning about AI from the industry itself.

2:12.6

Alistair, what have we heard today?

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