Is my job as a video producer safe from AI?

Thomson Reuters Foundation video producer Ashley Jiang is pictured holding her hands together in front of a robot emoji and a Memoji in this graphic for the Context video 'Is my job as a video producer safe from AI?'. Ashley Jiang/Thomson Reuters Foundation

New to Context? We'd love for you to find out a little more about what we do. Click here for a selection of our best work.

In the last year, we’ve seen AI create award winning art, write movie scripts, diagnose patients and even pass an MBA exam. It has me wondering how safe my job as a video producer is. I’ve worked hard to become good at my job, and I’m not ready to let the machines take over just yet. But how much of what I do could be automated one day?

To find out, I decided to make a short video about the Shiba Inu, a Japanese dog breed, and then use various AI programs to create a video on the same topic. These programs wrote the script, did the voice-over, found the footage and even edited it all together, with some input from me. Then I asked some of my brutally honest coworkers to compare the two. Watch the video above to see how I fared. 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel | Watch more videos like this

FEATURED


Latest

See all

KICKING IT

We’re addicted to the things that we know are bad for the planet. Why is it so hard to quit them?


Lab Made

A series about an industry challenging the way we think about food and whether it can live up to its promise of changing the world


REROOTED

See all

In this series, we explore how climate change and shifting consumer habits are forcing us to rethink the way we grow staple crops, from coffee to rice