Townhall previously reported how the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists went on strike together over many issues, one being Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I. As Jacob noted, the guilds claimed that writers’ jobs are being taken and replaced by robotic scripts developed by A.I.
Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA stated that “artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions, and all actors and performers deserve contract language that protects them from having their identity and talent exploited without consent and pay.”
“If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines,” Drescher added.
A growing number of Americans believe that technology will make their job obsolete in the coming years, according to a new Gallup poll released Monday.
In the latest poll, 22 percent of Americans said that they worry that technology will make their job obsolete. In 2021, this figure was 15 percent.
According to Gallup’s write-up, the rise in concern about their job becoming obsolete is mostly with college-educated workers, where it has jumped from 8 percent to 20 percent in recent years. And, it is up more among younger workers and those making less than $100,000 per year (via Gallup):
Developments in computers’ ability to mimic human language, recently made clear with the release of ChatGPT last November, may be changing the stereotype of what computers can do in the workplace. It is no longer only about robots standing in for humans in warehouses and on assembly lines but has expanded to online programs conducting sophisticated language-based work, including writing computer code.
Last month, a poll from the Los Angeles Times found that 45 percent of Americans are concerned about impact A.I. will have on their own line of work. Twenty-nine percent said they are not concerned.
Almost Half of Americans Are Worried AI Will Affect Their Job:
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Almost half of Americans, and 57% of those aged 18 to 34, are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on their jobs.
According to a poll by the Los Angeles Times.
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According to the poll write-up, 63 percent of U.S. consumers think governments need to regulate AI to reduce the risk of it replacing human jobs. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said that they think AI will inevitably replace some human jobs. Fifty-five percent support the government regulating the use of AI, and 73 percent support including a disclaimer with all AI-generated content so that it is clearly identified.