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An Alternative Vision for the Future of Tech and Work: A First Look at Labor’s AI Values - Inequality.org

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Everyday we are inundated with media headlines touting AI’s potential to usher in sweeping changes to the labor market — often predicting full-scale automation and widespread job loss. However, labor has a radically different vision for the future of technology adoption, one that centers workers and communities, embraces common-sense guardrails, and enhances workers’ quality of life on and off the job. Over the past few years, a number of different unions and worker organizations have released a series of principles, public statements, frameworks, and resolutions articulating this alternative vision. We analyzed 19 of these documents published by 17 different unions and worker organizations, and found a broad set of themes emerging — which we cover in detail in our report A First Look at Labor’s AI Values. In this piece, we lift up each of these four core themes — demonstrating that a different vision for the future of technology adoption is possible. First, and significantly, none of

An Alternative Vision for the Future of Tech and Work: A First Look at Labor’s AI Values November 10, 2025 by Mishal Khan and Kung Feng A new report details how unions are responding to AI in the workplace. Continue Reading

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