WGA Negotiating Committee Member David Simon On Urgency To Tackle AI Now & Fight To Keep Term Employment

WGAE negotiating committee member David Simon talks with Deadline about the sharpest issues striking writers are facing.

May 15, 2023 · 1 min · 90 words · Robin Wells

There are things that AI can do and there are things it clearly cant do.

And that moment is now.

And the producers at the time said to us, This is so new.

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We dont know where the money is in here, or if there is any money.

… Well talk about this in the next contract.

Thats literally what they said.

I would suggest to you, the moment with AI is the same way.

We either deal with AI right now or in three years.