Twisted Sisters Dee Snider predicts AI will replace all jobs except blue-collar ones

Dee Snider is best known for singing the classic rock tune “We’re Not Gonna Take It” with the band Twisted Sister, and now he can add artificial intelligence to the list of things he’s willing to stand up against.The rocker called the developing AI trend “terrifying” during a new interview with Fox News Digital, but he noted that there’s a certain class of workers who likely won’t be affected by its increasing popularity.Snider was featured in a new “Biography” special on A&E where he can be seen doing what he does best: working as a “frontman” for his rock band.“It’s not something that everybody knows,” he told Fox News Digital.“They know the songs, they know things about me, but they don’t know that is the thing I do best.

I don’t think AI can replace that.”He continued, “They can’t replace physical jobs, you know, manual labor, which being a frontman is — rocking, connecting with the audience, whatever.”However, Snider said that many other aspects of being in a band, such as singing and songwriting as well as jobs on the business side of music, could be done with artificial intelligence.“They’re going to take everybody’s jobs,” he said, “if you’re not a blue-collar worker.”Blue-collar workers, he said, actually make things.“They can’t do that,” the singer pointed out.“They don’t have hands.”Snider concluded, “Anyway, be that as it may, I’m glad I’ll be dead before the excrement really hits the fan.”Snider, 69, has been in the music industry for roughly 50 years.

He told Fox News Digital that while Twisted Sister’s breakout hit, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” was released in 1984, the band had been together for 10 years before finding mainstream success.“I could have been a doctor in that time,” he joked.“I mean, I could have found a cure for cancer in 10 years.”Twisted Sister reached international fame in the ’80s before breaking up toward the end of the decade...