Hollywood's unions are responding to AI warnings with a grounded reminder: for many workers, the risk is not a distant superintelligence but a tool that copies voices, faces, writing, or production labor today.
That matters because the AI safety debate can drift toward dramatic future scenarios while industries face immediate bargaining questions. Consent, compensation, attribution, job displacement, and enforceable contracts are already live issues.
The useful lesson is that AI governance has to cover both timelines. Frontier model risk deserves attention, but worker protections and creative rights are where many people will first experience AI power.
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