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Northern TUC warned that AI is being used to bring dead actors to life and to replace living ones
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence is being used to bring dead actors to life and to replace living ones, the annual conference of the Northern region of the TUC was warned on Saturday.

Dolores Poretta-Brown from creative arts union Equity said AI could be of great benefit to society, including in medicine with the discovery of new treatments for cancer.

“But it is not taking doctors’ jobs away. It is taking our members’ jobs,” she said. 

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