SAG-AFTRA Chief Drescher Sounds Alarm on AI, Celebrates Union Wins at SAG Awards
• Fran Drescher, head of actors' union SAG-AFTRA, warned against AI during SAG Awards speech, saying it could "entrap us in a matrix"
• Union recently secured "historic $1 billion deal" with protections against unauthorized use of actors' likenesses by AI
• Drescher advocated for film/TV that "sparks human spirit, connects us to natural world, awakens capacity to love"
• Dystopian series like The Last of Us recognized amid award wins for fact-based films like Oppenheimer
• Drescher congratulated actors for sparking "hot labor summer" with strikes/near-strikes among various unions