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Orlando Wood discusses AI's impact on performer rights with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland from SAG-AFTRA.

SAG-AFTRA on AI: Who Owns Your Face, Voice & Performance? 🤝 Presented in Partnership with the Future of Life Institute This episode is part of a special series presented in partnership with the Future of Life Institute (FLI). Throughout Season 4 of Technically Creative, we're exploring some of the biggest questions surrounding artificial intelligence, creativity, copyright, performer rights, AI safety, and responsible innovation. Learn more about the Future of Life Institute: 📺 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@futureoflifeinstitute/ 🌐 Website https://futureoflife.org/ 🎭 AI, Actors & Hollywood's Biggest Conversation In this episode of Technically Creative, Orlando Wood sits down with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of SAG-AFTRA, to explore one of the biggest questions facing the creative industries today: Who owns your face, your voice, and your performance in the age of AI? As artificial intelligence transforms filmmaking, television, advertising, gaming and digital media, performers are facing entirely new questions around AI actors, digital replicas, voice cloning, copyright, consent, likeness rights and ownership. Duncan has been…

People in this episode

Host: Orlando Wood

Guest: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• performer rights
• copyright
• digital media
• AI safety
• responsible innovation

Keywords

• AI
• performers
• copyright
• voice cloning
• digital replicas
• likeness rights
• ownership

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Organizations: SAG-AFTRA, Future of Life Institute, Hollywood

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