Reese Witherspoon has clarified her stance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) following backlash over her comments urging women to familiarize themselves with its uses or risk being left behind in the workforce. Her comments echoed findings from a report by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland's National Research Institute. However, many critics believed it was a paid plug without addressing environmental, health, cognitive and other harms associated with AI. WitherSpoon clarified that she was not advocating to replace humans with AI and was merely trying to help women recognize the reality that the technology was here to stay.