SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland today released the following statement:
"For the creative community and our members, artificial intelligence tools present an existential threat to our livelihood and art as well as an opportunity to augment and amplify what we do. We deeply appreciate Leader Schumer’s work and that of the working group to convene stakeholders, including our community, in a thoughtful and deliberate effort to protect us from the harms we see coming from A.I. as well as ensure we can capture its benefits. We particularly appreciate the call to protect everyone from the unauthorized use and digital reproduction of their image, likeness, and voice in law. We also appreciate the call for transparency in the training data used to develop A.I. models and in the outputs they produce along with mechanisms for determining where that content originated. Leader Schumer and the Senate working group have produced a roadmap we hope Congress will follow quickly and implement its component parts as soon as possible. Again, we thank and commend the Leader and his team.”
About SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.