Mira Murati is the chief technology officer of OpenAI ... that's the company designing and deploying early generative artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. 

She ruffled a lot of feathers in the creative industries when she made these comments at a recent forum at Dartmouth ... when asked if AI programs will eventually replace human creative jobs.

For writers and actors in Hollywood, this is exactly the fear they had when they fought so hard to win certain AI protections during last year's strikes.  

KNX News spoke to writer, producer, director and actor Justine Bateman ... who also holds a bachelors degree in computer science ... to get her reaction to Murati's cavalier dismissal of creative jobs ... and her insistence that AI and human creators were working collaboratively.

She's warning creative workers in the entertainment industry to brace themselves for more AI intrusions.

Bateman believes it's absolutely the intention of Hollywood studios to replace human creative jobs with AI models.

For her part, OpenAI's Mira Murati has insisted during several media appearances that they're designing AI tools to HELP and collaborate with human workers, not REPLACE them.