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The Workers of Hollywood See A.I. Fights Ahead 

For the first time since the strikes of 2023, the leaders of five major entertainment unions come together to debate the artificial intelligence threat, what they gained (and didn’t) by shutting down the industry, and the roadmap for negotiations in ’24: “Nothing is off the table.”

From left: Lindsay Dougherty, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Meredith Stiehm, Matthew Loeb, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and moderator Matt Belloni speak on the A.I. Goes to Hollywood panel at the 2024 Labor Innovation & Technology Summit in Las Vegas.
From left: Lindsay Dougherty, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Meredith Stiehm, Matthew Loeb, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and moderator Matt Belloni speak on the A.I. Goes to Hollywood panel at the 2024 Labor Innovation & Technology Summit in Las Vegas.
Matthew Belloni
January 12, 2024

I think most people in Hollywood are hoping to put the crippling labor unrest of 2023 completely behind them. Like Chris Evans with Ghosted or HBO with The Idol, we’ll all just pretend it never happened, and these next couple years will be free from work stoppages. I even predicted as much last week. But I’m now questioning that forecast after a panel I moderated on Tuesday at the Labor Innovation and Technology Summit at C.E.S. in Las Vegas with the leaders of the five most aggressive industry unions— including IATSE, the below-the-line crew union, whose current deal is up July 31; and the Teamsters, which represents everyone from on-set drivers to casting directors, and has several deals expiring this year.