After the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Jennifer Hale said AI is a hammer that can “break your skin and destroy you.”

Voice actress Jennifer Hale has discussed the impact of AI as part of the current SAG-AFTRA voice actors’ strike, and described it as a hammer that can “break your skin and destroy you.”

Hale is well known for his video game work, which includes mass Effect (Shepard), metal Gear Solid (Naomi Hunter), and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Rivet)

“AI is coming for all of us,” Hale says in a new interview. Diversity“Because the truth is that AI is a tool, just like a hammer. If I take my hammer, I can build you a house. I can also break your skin and destroy you with that same hammer.”

AI becomes a major talking point in the latest SAG-AFTRA strikeIt began in July. After more than a year and a half of negotiations between the actors union and major game companies, no agreement has been reached on the use of AI.

“We will not agree to a contract that allows companies to misuse AI to the detriment of our members,” said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. “Enough is enough. When these companies are serious about offering an agreement to stay and work with our members, we will be ready to negotiate.”

Hale pointed out that SAG-AFTRA’s latest counter offer is incorporated into an existing interim agreement signed by about 70 developers. The National Association of Voice Actors has also taken a stand before the US Congress to protect people’s voice and visual equality against generative AI.

“If you use something generated by our bodies or our voices, can we please get paid?” Hale said. “Because now you’re using technology to take away our ability to feed our children.”

Hale also suggested a wider systemic issue with the games industry in terms of pay inequality. He was paid just $1200 for his work on Metal Gear Solid, which had then grossed approximately $176 million.

“The question I want everyone to be asking is, ‘There’s a lot of money being made here. Where is it going?’,” she said. “And in the current system, the way our system works, and this whole idea of ​​shareholder supremacy, it’s flowing to the one percent. If you keep flowing that much money, you can’t even feed the people who made this possible.”

The main point of contention between voice actress Helena Taylor and Platinum Games after working on ‘This Is My Life’ was salary. Bayonetta In sports, Hale played a role bayonetta 3“Let’s be nice to each other,” said Hale After a fierce online debate on the subject,

UK Actors Union Equity has not authorized its strike against video game companiesbut stands in “solidarity” with its sister union. This is partly due to the restrictive nature of industrial relations legislation in the UK.

Hale isn’t the only one critical of AI. Baldur’s Gate 3 voice actors reveal the dark side of the game’s success powered by AI voice cloning,

still, AI is changing video game development forever,