What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
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Hollywood labor groups pushing back on existential AI doom to refocus on present-day job and IP impacts shows how split the AI narrative has become. For studios and AI vendors, that means any deployment plan now has to navigate two conversations in parallel: frontier risk optics and near-term labor contracts.
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