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Secretary-General of the ITU
First woman to lead the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, host of the “AI for Good” Global Summit, who frames AI as a chance for developing nations to leapfrog — provided the 2.6 billion people still offline aren’t left behind.
Director
One of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, and a lifelong champion of film preservation. In 2026 he became an advisor to Black Forest Labs and spoke openly about using AI-generated storyboards in pre-production — framing AI as another tool for communicating a director’s vision, not a replacement for artists — drawing a furious open letter from the Art Directors Guild.
Politician and Former Union Minister
Television soap star turned senior BJP politician and former Union Minister who champions AI as a great democratiser — casting it as a woman’s ideal “saarthi,” or guide, into the digital economy.
Singer & Telenovela Icon
Mexican pop superstar and “Queen of Telenovelas” who keeps turning AI on herself — releasing AI avatar videos, an AI reunion with her iconic telenovela characters, and an AI-generated retrospective of her musical career.
Novelist
Author of Little Fires Everywhere who signed the Authors Guild open letter — not a call to ban AI, but a demand that companies obtain writers’ consent, credit and compensation before training on their books.
Comedian & Labor Advocate
Comedian behind Adam Ruins Everything and a WGA negotiating-committee member during the 2023 strike. His viral video essay “A.I. is B.S.” and strike-era advocacy made him one of the loudest voices calling AI overhyped — and a tool for bosses to squeeze workers.
Labor Federation
America’s largest labor federation — nearly 15 million workers across some 60 unions — fights AI-driven displacement and federal preemption of state AI laws, while cutting a first-of-its-kind partnership with Microsoft to give workers a voice in AI development.
Voice Actor & Writer
Acclaimed voice actor — Aloy in Horizon, Chloe in Life is Strange — and Emmy-nominated writer who has become a leading voice in the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, demanding consent and compensation before any AI replica of a performer is made.
Film Director & Crossbench Peer
The filmmaker turned crossbench peer led the 2025 House of Lords rebellion that repeatedly forced AI-copyright transparency amendments into the UK’s Data Bill, defying the government on behalf of creators.
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of “Orphan Train” is a named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, accusing the company of training ChatGPT on her novels without permission or payment.
Screenwriter & Showrunner
Creator of Chernobyl and co-creator of HBO’s The Last of Us. During the 2023 WGA strike he framed AI as an existential threat to the whole industry: if a “Craig bot” can exist in five years, “none of us are gonna be here” — executives included.
Thriller Novelist
The mega-selling thriller writer is a named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI and told the U.S. Senate that discovering AI had ingested his sixty novels felt like a truck backing up to his imagination and stealing everything he’d ever created.
Creator of The Wire
The journalist-turned-showrunner behind The Wire and The Deuce became one of television’s fiercest opponents of AI-written scripts during the 2023 writers’ strike, saying he would sooner quit than let a machine solve his story problems.
Directors’ Union
The film and television directors’ union whose June 2023 contract established — before either Hollywood strike ended — that generative AI “is not a person” and cannot replace the duties performed by its members.
Thriller & Nonfiction Author
The co-creator of the Pendergast thrillers is a lead named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, after discovering ChatGPT knew his characters, settings, and even minor figures from his books in eerie detail — proof, he argues, that his novels were ingested without permission.
Novelist — “Queen of the Beach Read”
The bestselling author of the Nantucket beach-read canon put her name on the Authors Guild class action against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of training GPT on pirated copies of authors’ novels.
Youth AI Policy Organization
The youth-led AI-policy group founded by Sneha Revanur co-sponsored California’s SB 1047 and SB 53 and filed an amicus brief — backed by Geoffrey Hinton — opposing OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.
European Writers’ Federation
Brussels-based federation of over 50 European writers’ and translators’ unions that fought for transparency, consent, and remuneration in the EU AI Act, declaring that every generative AI model was trained “in full opacity” on protected work.
Fantasy Illustrator & AI-Regulation Advocate
Dutch fantasy illustrator (Evaboneva) who advises the European Guild for AI Regulation and whose painting Belladonna became the first artwork protected with the Nightshade data-poisoning tool.
Actor & Union Leader
The Nanny star who, as SAG-AFTRA president, led the 118-day 2023 actors’ strike against AI likeness scanning, warning that performers were “all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”
Actress & Union Advocate
Titanic and Unforgiven actress who served on SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee during the 2023 strike that won AI consent protections, and later signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration.
Tech Whistleblower
The Facebook whistleblower who leaked 21,000 internal documents and told the Senate that engagement-optimizing algorithms put “astronomical profits before people” — now warning that AI companions for children are the next legal battleground.
Author
The A Song of Ice and Fire author is the marquee name on the Authors Guild’s class action against OpenAI, filed in September 2023 after ChatGPT was used to generate fake sequels to his unfinished saga. His demand: rules, consent, and compensation — not a ban.
Writer
Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and master of the American short story. An Authors Guild v. OpenAI plaintiff who argues machine text can imitate storytelling but can never do what fiction is for: one mind knowing another.
Musician
The Irish singer-songwriter behind “Take Me to Church” told BBC Newsnight in 2023 he would “absolutely” join a musicians’ strike over AI — and questioned whether machine output, created without human experience, meets the definition of art.
Creative-Industry Coalition
Coalition of 200+ creative-industry organizations — unions, labels, publishers, and guilds from music to acting — launched at SXSW 2023 around seven principles for AI, chief among them: no copyright for machines, and no training without consent.
Entertainment Crew Union
The 170,000-member union of Hollywood crews and stage employees negotiated AI guardrails into its 2024 Basic Agreement — no member can be required to write prompts that displace a fellow worker — though dissenting locals called the protections too weak.
Best-Selling Novelist
The world’s best-selling living novelist, a headline signer of the Authors Guild letter demanding consent and payment from AI companies — who argues AI will never write great literature but may “decimate” the next generation of readers.
Best-selling novelist of My Sister’s Keeper and 29 other books. A named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI and one of the most persistent campaigners against AI companies training on authors’ work without consent or pay.
The king of the legal thriller took his genre to real life: Grisham is a named plaintiff in the Authors Guild’s September 2023 class action accusing OpenAI of copying authors’ books wholesale — without permission or payment — to train ChatGPT.
Author of The Corrections and Freedom, and one of America’s most celebrated literary novelists. A named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI who calls generative AI a new frontier of Silicon Valley’s exploitation of creators.
Actor & Comedian
Seinfeld and Veep star — the most Emmy-decorated performer in history — who urged SAG-AFTRA members to authorize the 2023 strike over AI, then skewered ChatGPT onstage after it confused her with Julia Roberts.
Actor & Filmmaker
The Family Ties star turned writer-director is Hollywood’s most systematic AI opponent: AI adviser to SAG-AFTRA during the 2023 strike, and founder of CREDO23, a certification stamp and film festival for productions made with no generative AI.
President of the AFL-CIO
First woman president of the AFL-CIO, representing 12.5 million workers, who calls unregulated AI “the single biggest threat to working people of our lifetime” and leads labor’s campaign for AI guardrails.
Youth Tech-Resistance Group
The Brooklyn-born club of teenagers who swapped smartphones for flip phones and renounced algorithmic tech. Founded by Logan Lane, it grew into a nonprofit with chapters across the US and a touchstone of the new Luddite movement in the AI era.
CEO of the Authors Guild
As CEO of the Authors Guild, she built the leading institutional campaign against unlicensed AI training — the 2023 open letter with thousands of author signatures and the class-action suit against OpenAI.
President of Signal
Signal’s president and co-founder of the AI Now Institute, who argues that AI is not a new intelligence but the old surveillance business model wearing a new mask.
Crime Novelist
The creator of Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer is a named plaintiff in the Authors Guild class action against OpenAI — and turned the AI reckoning into fiction, building his 2025 Lincoln Lawyer novel around a lawsuit against a chatbot company.
AI Protest Movement
Global grassroots protest network founded in 2023 by Dutch entrepreneur Joep Meindertsma, demanding an international treaty to pause the training of frontier AI systems until they can be proven safe — the street-protest wing of AI safety.
Essayist & Cultural Critic
Bad Feminist author and cultural critic who signed the Authors Guild letter demanding AI companies get consent and pay writers — while showing what consent looks like by licensing her own commentary, for pay, to an AI reading app.
Performers’ Union
The 160,000-member union of screen actors and media performers. Its 118-day 2023 strike was fought largely over AI digital replicas, and it has since struck the video game industry over voice cloning and forced OpenAI to tighten Sora 2’s likeness rules.
Storyboard Artist & Director
Storyboard artist and director who serves on the Animation Guild’s AI task force and negotiating committee, and who has become a plainspoken explainer of how image generators are powered by artists’ scraped portfolios.
Lawyer & Legal-Thriller Novelist
The lawyer-novelist who invented the modern legal thriller with Presumed Innocent is fighting AI companies in court for real: a plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, and lead author plaintiff in class actions against Meta (2026) and Google (2026).
Founder of Encode
Founder and president of Encode — dubbed “the Greta Thunberg of AI” — who co-sponsored California’s SB 1047, fought OpenAI’s for-profit conversion in court, and became the youngest member of the inaugural TIME100 AI at 18.
UK Writers’ Union
The UK’s largest writers’ union, founded in 1884, demanding consent, credit, and payment for AI training — its 2024 survey documented members already losing work to AI, and it led protests against Meta’s use of pirated books.
Voice Actor
Guinness-record-holding video game voice actor — Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop, Wolverine, countless game roles — who publicly rejected a union-brokered AI voice deal, insisting no one in the voice community had approved handing their livelihoods to AI.
Protest Movement
San Francisco protest movement with a single demand: every major AI lab CEO must publicly commit to pausing frontier-model development if every other major lab credibly does the same. What drew about 20 people two years ago brought hundreds to the doors of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind in July 2026.
Actress & Activist
Oscar-winning actress and lifelong activist who became one of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike’s most visible voices on AI, warning that studios could use actors’ images “in perpetuity” without control or consent.
Romance Novelist
The multimillion-selling author of the Crossfire series is a named plaintiff in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, the landmark class action accusing ChatGPT’s maker of training on authors’ books without permission.
Animation Workers’ Union
IATSE Local 839, the union of more than 5,000 Hollywood animation workers. It made generative AI the centerpiece of its 2024 contract fight, staging the largest animation labor rally in history — and ratified a deal many members felt fell short.
Comedian & Writer
Emmy-winning comedian and WGA veteran who paused her own Netflix series to strike in 2023, framing the walkout — in which AI limits were a core demand — as a fight for “the survival of our craft.”
Screenwriters’ Union
The screenwriters’ union whose 148-day 2023 strike won Hollywood’s first major contractual AI protections: AI cannot write or rewrite literary material, AI output is not source material, and no writer can be forced to use it.
