The Hollywood writers' strike broke out this week over pay, but the refusal of studios like Netflix and Disney to rule out artificial intelligence replacing human scribes in the future has only fueled anger and fear on the picket lines. Screenwriter and WGA member Eric Heisserer says “many of us who believe that art cannot be created by a machine, you lose the heart and the soul of the story you're telling. If you let AI control that, I mean, the first word is artificial, and so it will always feel somewhat artificial”. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES