The Robots Coming for Hollywood Labor

With android arms and humanoids able to complete precise tasks, physical production could be replaced long before writers and directors

WILD ROBOTS Thanks to advancements in AI-powered robotics, meet your future film crew as foretold by 2004’s I, Robot. (Photo illustration by The Ankler; 20th Century Studios)

Erik Barmack writes every other Tuesday for paid subscribers. He recently analyzed AI storyboarding tools in pitching scripts, whether Hollywood should take AI money, and produced a…