As the use of AI in Hollywood ramps up, the entertainment industry’s top crew union has hired a dedicated staffer to help them navigate this brave and uncertain new world.

Enter Jillian Arnold, the more than 170,000-person labor group’s first labor and technology intelligence officer, tasked with keeping the union abreast of technological developments and protecting its workers. With a jurisdiction spanning the U.S. and Canada, she’s set to get involved in contract negotiations, reskilling and upskilling initiatives and federal and state policy efforts.

And though her hire was publicly announced by IATSE on Friday, Arnold has been quietly working in the role since late July, she told The Hollywood Reporter . “We want to make sure that we are a part of the deployment and integration of any AI within our craft so that we make tools that are for workers, not displacing workers,” she said.

Arnold isn’t a Silicon Valley type, but rather a former crew member herself.…