White-collar work

Will AI upend white-collar work? Consider the Hollywood editor

FOR most of his four-plus decades in Hollywood, Thomas R Moore has worked as a picture editor on network television shows.

Members of the Writers Guild of America and supporters picket outside a sound stage at Brooklyn Stages where the "FBI" television show was filming in New York, May 5, 2023. Among the writers’ demands is that studios will not let artificial intelligence encroach on writers’ credit or compensation.
EDITORIAL

What Hollywood’s AI tussle portends for the rest of us

LAST week, thousands of unionised Hollywood screenwriters slammed their Macbooks shut and went on strike, bringing TV and movie productions to a crashing halt.