Overview
- The Oscar-winning screenwriter told Stephen Colbert she feels "intense irritation" with AI tools that offer to rewrite her work.
- She said she drafts longhand because she believes in a brain–hand connection, then types pages into a Word document that now prompts rewrites.
- Thompson recalled a past computer meltdown that turned her Sense and Sensibility script into "hieroglyphs," with Stephen Fry spending hours recovering a single long sentence.
- Coverage linked her comments to broader industry objections that include Joseph Gordon-Levitt's recent call to pause AI super-intelligence and SAG-AFTRA leaders' insistence on opt-in consent for use of creative work.
- No new policy changes were announced, but her remarks add public weight to ongoing debates over reliability, consent, and the role of AI in creative workflows.