“out in many different industries. That’s because, for corporations and venture capitalists, the appeal of AI is not that it is sentient or technologically revolutionary, but that it promises to make the jobs of huge swaths of labor redundant and unnecessary. Corporate executives in nearly every industry and mega margin-maximizing consultancies2 like McKinsey, BlackRock, and Deloitte want to “increase productivity” with AI, which is consultant-speak for replacing labor with technology. But this promise is highly exaggerated. In the vast majority of cases, AI is not going to replace your job. But it will make your job a lot shittier. What actors and writers are fighting for is a future that doesn’t relegate humans to babysitting scriptwriting and acting algorithms, available on call but only paid when the media synthesis machines glitch out.”