AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion

by | Mar 15, 2026 | Technology

If you’ve got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character’s voice throughout a scene, there’s a job listing calling for your experience.

The catch: You won’t be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You’d be using your talents to train an AI model for “one of the leading AI companies,” according to the open role posted by Handshake, a company that provides training data to OpenAI and other labs.

Handshake AI is one of a handful of companies of its kind, scrambling to provide more and more niche or specific training data to A …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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Written by Albert Pham, News Curator and Blogger

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