Somebody finally scored every job on a film set against AI, one job at a time.
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That AI-is-coming-for-your-job headline? Somebody finally checked it. Job by job. A coalition started by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Kwan asked working pros to rate what AI can actually do to their job. Zero to five.
If you've been lying awake doing the math on your department, stop guessing. Here's the list. Because until now all we had was headlines. This is people who do the work, scoring it themselves. Zero means it doesn't touch the job. Two, it's changed how you work. Three, it can do one of your core tasks. Five, it could do the whole job.
A hundred and sixty-two jobs scored so far. Not one got a five. Nine got a four, and most of them are voices, drawings, or words on a page.
Voiceover. Session singers. Concept artists. Roto. Transcription. Script coverage. Directors and editors? The highest any tool scores against them is a two. Camera operators and actors top out at three. It's a work in progress. They update it every quarter.
And one of the founders admits a zero can still get hit, if the whole set goes virtual. I looked up the closest thing to my chair. Director. A two.
And last week I told you a trade column put local TV directors on its exposed list. Both are true. A two doesn't mean safe. It means if my job goes, it won't be the software that cut it. It'll be the org chart.
The score tells you what the machine can do. It doesn't tell you what your boss will do with it. So look up your job. Any tool that scores three or higher can already do one of your core tasks. Know which ones. Then add your own score, because the production sound mixer isn't even on the board yet.
Like this if you're going to look up your own job.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter (Sept 9); CCAI Impact Visualizer (data as of Sept 14).