Authors are slamming Reese Witherspoon for telling followers 'it's time to learn A.I.'

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Reese Witherspoon is hyping A.I.again, and American authors have a few thoughts.

The Oscar-winning actor and producer, known for spotlighting women’s voices through her famed book club, television and screen projects, may have been barking up the wrong tree when she told her social media followers that it was time to learn A.I.on Wednesday.

“Well…I’ve decided it’s TIME,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram reel on Wednesday.“The AI revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you.

Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average.We don’t want to be left behind.

So…do you want to learn with me?”In the video, which the star shared across social media platforms, Witherspoon said she was with 10 women at a book club this week.“I said to the 10 of them, ‘How many of you guys use AI?’ And only three of them used AI.

And then I said, ‘How many of the three of you feel like you really know what you’re doing or using it the right way?’ And there was only one person,” she said.“So, if three out of 10 women are the only ones using AI, that means 70% of that group is not keeping up.

The thing I’ve learned about technology is if you don’t get a little bit of understanding from the very beginning, it just speeds past you.So you have to have little bits of learning just to keep up.” California Three attorneys are facing discipline from the State Bar of California over allegations they used AI in court filings and cited nonexistent legal decisions.The “Big Little Lies” star then seemingly put out a feeler for an A.I.

learning course saying, “I think we should learn the basics together and learn some really good tools that are going to make our everyday lives easier and better.Do you want me to s...