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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Heather Stewart

‘The challenges are real’: TUC taskforce to examine AI threat to workers’ rights

(From left) Mary Towers, Dee Masters and Gina Neff
(From left) Mary Towers, Dee Masters and Gina Neff, who will work on the TUC panel. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos/The Observer

“We can’t let existential risks blind us to the challenges we face today,” says Gina Neff, a tech expert at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of a new TUC taskforce on artificial intelligence in the workplace. “Those challenges are real, and they’re faced by all of us.”

Rishi Sunak is hosting a global AI safety summit in November, amid hair-raising concerns raised by tech gurus – some of whom have even warned the technology could destroy humanity.

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