Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Class Struggle — On The Line

Thejas Wesley is a Los Angeles-based staff organizer with UAW, helping workers build fighting new unions particularly in higher education. He has also been active in the struggle against police brutality. He got his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at MIT, and is passionate about building a fighting labor movement capable of addressing the issues of science and technology facing the working class. Belinda Li is a Ph.D. student at MIT, studying AI and natural language processing. Belinda is currently a department chief steward for the graduate student union at MIT (UE local 256), and has participated in activism around the Boston area. Jonathan Thomas Jr. is a second generation UPS employee in San Francisco’s East Bay. He is a teamster shop steward for IBT Local 315, and an activist with the bay area chapter of the ANSWER coalition.

Thejas Wesley is a Los Angeles-based staff organizer with UAW, helping workers build fighting new unions particularly in higher education. He has also been active in the struggle against police brutality. He got his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at MIT, and is passionate about building a fighting labor movement capable of addressing the issues of science and technology facing the working class. Belinda Li is a Ph.D. student at MIT, studying AI and natural language processing. Belinda is currently a department chief steward for the graduate student union at MIT (UE local 256), and has participa