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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

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…

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