When Cate Blanchett visited Egypt in her capacity as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in October 2025, she met some Sudanese students who fled Sudan due to the ongoing civil war there. One of the letters she received was from a 12-year-old boy talking about missing Sudan, his family and friends and the longing to go back home.

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Cate also shows her support of Anti-AI campaign “Stealing Isn’t Innovation”.

The London of School Economics has shared photos of Cate during her attendance at a lecture by Iraqi American activist and writer Zainab Salbi exploring the gendered impact of climate change.

“Stealing Isn’t Innovation” Campaign

Writers, actors and other musicians have come out in support of the Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” push for licensing and opt-out mechanisms for human-created works.

Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are backing a campaign blasting tech companies for training generative AI tools on copyrighted works without express permission.

The “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” campaign from the Human Artistry Campaign, which launches Thursday, protests tech companies’ alleged mass theft of human-created works in order to produce tools that could theoretically compete with real creatives.

On Thursday, the Human Artistry Campaign debuted the awareness campaign and revealed more than 700 supporters behind it, while The New York Times ran an ad for the push.

“Big Tech is trying to change the law so they can keep stealing American artistry to build their AI businesses — without authorization and without paying the people who did the work. That is wrong; it’s un-American, and it’s theft on a grand scale,” one of the campaign’s message proclaims. “The following creators all agree. Do you? If so, come join us.”

The Human Artistry Campaign is composed of a mix of unions representing creators, artists’ rights groups and trade associations like the Writers Guild of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, The NewsGuild, the NFL Players Association and SAG-AFTRA.

The organization encourages tech companies to license works and also to allow creators to opt out of their projects being subject to generative AI training.

“Real innovation comes from the human motivation to change our lives. It moves opportunity forward while driving economic growth and creating jobs,” Human Artistry Campaign senior advisor Dr. Moiya McTier said in a statement. “But AI companies are endangering artists’ careers while exploiting their practiced craft, using human art and other creative works without authorization to amass billions in corporate earnings.”

LSE Lecture by Zainab Salbi on the gendered impact of climate change