Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is creeping up on workers’ futures across the board. Everything from self-driving trucks, which need no driver and will devastate those who make their living on the long and often dangerous drives, to actors who have fought to control rights to their images and voices, is being affected. Now, SAG-AFTRA has called a strike of their video game producing members, the second one since Sept. 2023. The union says that a new set of protections for their members must be agreed to by a wide range of powerful studios that produce the games, and which provide critical A.I. protections for members. “The video game industry generates billions of dollars in profit annually,” said SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, while SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said that when the “companies get serious about an agreement our members can live – and work- with, we will be here, ready to negotiate.”
Read the full story SAG-AFTRA News, published July 25, 2024, here: https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-members-who-work-video-games-go-strike
