Disagreement over the use of artificial intelligence is playing a starring role as US actors began a strike following weeks of failed negotiations with Hollywood studios. At stake is who may retain control over any digital doppelgängers used in film and television. If studios gain sole control over the rights to an actor's likeness, they could potentially use the digital twin in any number of film or television sequels and spin-offs without paying actors …

For almost three decades in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt has gone head to head in high-speed motorcycle battles, climbed Dubai's Burj Khalifa, and hung from the side of a plane during takeoff. Oh, and he also died at one point (following an extended free dive into an underwater data bank). But in the latest film, Dead Reckoning Part 1, Ethan Hunt faces his toughest opponent yet: an omnipotent AI that could reshape geopolitics as we know it. After defying the laws of physics, it only makes sense that he has to defeat a god. As ludicrous as that may sound, it also fits perfectly within the Mission: Impossible series, a universe where Ethan Hunt has been described as the "living manifestation of destiny," and everyone is well aware that the "Impossible Mission Force" sounds like something pulled out of a comic book.

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You know it's bad when the cocreator of The Matrix thinks your artificial intelligence plan stinks. In June, as the Directors Guild of America was about to sign its union contract with Hollywood studios, Lilly Wachowski sent out a series of tweets explaining why she was voting no. The contact's AI clause, which stipulates that generative AI can't be considered a "person" or perform duties normally done by DGA members, didn't go far enough. "We need to change the language to imply that we won't use AI in any department, on any show we work on," Wachowski wrote. "I strongly believe the fight we [are] in right now in our industry is a microcosm of a much larger and critical crisis."

Are you watching the new season of the Apple TV series Foundation and thinking, "Wow, space looks cool. I wish it really was like that"? You're in luck--it very well could be. Foundation showrunner David S. Goyer says his adaptation of Isaac Asimov's science fiction series honed its cosmic details with Kevin Hand, a scientist who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and who's currently hard at work figuring out the logistics of landing a rover on Europa, one of Jupiter's 95 known moons. The show also found inspiration for its spacey visuals in recent images sent down from the James Webb Space Telescope, which Goyer calls "a treasure trove of material."

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Hollywood's actors and writers will join forces on the picket line from Friday, after studios failed to reach a deal this week with the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). It is the first time the two unions have been on strike simultaneously since 1960, when actor – and future US president – Ronald Reagan led the protests. Among SAG-AFTRA's 160,000-strong ranks are many of the world's biggest stars. Hollywood's A-listers, from Tom Cruise to Angelina Jolie to Johnny Depp, are card-carrying union members. Stars including Meryl Streep, Ben Stiller and Colin Farrell have come out publicly in favour of the strike.

"Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan spoke of the historical significance in artificial intelligence and compared it to the creation of the atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan examines the construction of the atomic bomb in his new film "Oppenheimer," opening in theaters later this moth. The famed British-American director acknowledged the impact artificial intelligence is currently having on the world - similar to the historical impact of the J. Robert Oppenheimer inception of the atomic bomb in the 1940s. "A lot of the AI researchers I talk to right now, they see this as their - they refer to it as the Oppenheimer moment," Nolan told Fox News Digital of AI infiltrating the entertainment industry. "It's really the looking back through Oppenheimer's story and saying, 'Okay, what could have been done differently? What are the responsibilities of people who create technology that can go out and have unintended impacts?'" "Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence infiltrating the film industry.

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on "America's Newsroom." Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping people see the world in new ways every day, including the blind, who find AI helping them navigate the world with greater ease and more options than they previously could have imagined. "I think it will lead to quality of life changes," Chris Danielsen, director of public relations for the National Federation of the Blind, told Fox News Digital. "I think Braille will always be important – let me just say that we're big advocates of Braille and the National Federation of the Blind – but … what I think we're going to see is just that blind people can get more information about their environment." The blind community has already utilized new technology with AI-adjacent capabilities for a number of years, notably through the app Be My Eyes, which launched in 2015 and utilized computer vision, which analyzes images and identifies objects within them.

The Associated Press is licensing a part its archive of news stories to OpenAI under a deal that will explore generative AI's use in news, the companies said Thursday, a move that could set the precedent for similar partnerships between the industries. The news publisher will gain access to OpenAI's technology and product expertise as part of the deal, the financial details of which were not disclosed. AP also did not reveal how it would integrate OpenAI's technology in its news operations. The publisher already uses AI for automating corporate earnings reports, recapping sporting events and transcription for certain live events. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.