Workers actually have significant leverage right now
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Businesses are desperate for workers to adopt AI, but what offer are they making?
This is a guest post from Adam Cantwell-Corn, AI policy lead, Trades Union Congress Image credit: Yutong Liu & Digit / Better Images of AI / CC by 4.0 In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way that is giving workers, representatives and allies significant leverage right now. First, while AI has the promise to automate or streamline tasks and to extend the capabilities of workers,…
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