After all the debate and strikes, we can all agree mostly that AI has and will be taking many jobs away. It sucks and since I've been in this business about a decade now I've personally seen my friends suffer from having less jobs in an industry they love more than anything. It sucks.
However, I think the problem isn't AI itself. The problem is when companies allow AI to take jobs away. I will fully admit I use AI every single day. But don't be too quick to judge me. I NEVER use it to fully write a script because I'm lazy or uncreative. I NEVER use it to take another actors job away by creating an AI generated video because I want to save money by not hiring an actress. These are things that I am fully against.
When I want to write a script. I come up with the ideas myself. Where AI helps me is when I don't have the knowledge or foresight that an academy award winning actress has. I don't have the knowledge of a Steven Spielberg who could write a script on his worst day that's better than the best piece I've ever written. So I ask AI to completely critique every aspect of my script until I rewrite and rewrite and eventually I realized I worked out all the details with a little help.
I recently watched season 6 of Cobra Kai and I'm not gonna spoil anything for people who haven't seen it but there's a brief scene where they used AI but did it the proper way. They asked the actor's family if it was okay as well as keeping that scene in a dream sequence so it didn't take another actor's job away. That is something I respect and it's how I think AI should be used. In small amounts. And ensuring it doesn't take a job away. It simply enhances OUR ideas and helps work with us to make them better! Because we aren't all going to be Quentin Tarantino. We need help sometimes.
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CGI didn't make stuntmen (and others on set) obsolete. AI won't do so either. It's a tool, albeit an influential one so it will cause changes. Good and bad but changes.