The fight over artificial intelligence has gone nuclear in western culture’s own Los Alamos, Hollywood screenwriters and actors drawing a line over the role generative machine learning will play in our future stories. Behind Fran Drescher’s fine picket-line exposition of how digital streaming is destroying wages, conditions and careers is a foundational demand that studio bosses agree not to pass off the work of machines as that of human creators. Christopher Nolan, director of the pre-strike blockbuster Oppenheimer, sees the parallels between his lead character’s work in creating the atomic bomb and “the dangers of unthinkingly unleashing a new technology...