How will artificial intelligence affect working people and their unions? As a union member for more than 50 years, I have some ideas on that, but first I thought I’d ask Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence software.
It generated a five-point, 181-word response. The gist of its somewhat redundant reply centered on workforce protection by fighting for safeguards against job displacement, negotiating for job guarantees, pushing for ethical guidelines and standards relating to privacy and bias, promoting training programs to help workers adapt to A.I.-driven workplaces, and negotiating for an equitable distribution of the benefits of A.I.
