Emma Thompson lost it on “The Late Show” when host Stephen Colbert asked about her feelings regarding “the coming AI revolution” in Hollywood. As an Oscar and BAFTA-winning screenwriter thanks to her 1995 adaptation of “Sense & Sensibility,” Thompson is especially irate when it comes to AI chatbots asking to rewrite her work.

“Intense irritation. I cannot begin to tell you,” Thompson said about her feelings on AI. “Because I write long hand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand. So it’s very important to me. And then when I’ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just saying, ’I don’t ne

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