How serious is the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) replacing Hollywood writers? It’s a point of contention in the current Writers Guild strike against film/TV companies.
Scott Myers has been a Writers Guild member since 1987, and is a professor of screenwriting at Depaul University in Chicago. On a scale of 1–10, Myers says 10+ is his level of worry about AI replacing screenwriters.
“You could look back on this historically and say this was hopefully a turning point where humans basically stood up and said, ‘We need to put some parameters here, some fencing on this, because it could eradicate what we’ve come to know as a writing career in Hollywood,’” Myers says.