Ten lessons on public sector AI from our work with education unions (opens in new tab)

Between July 2025 and April 2026, as part of our , Connected by Data and the TUC worked with nine education unions on an to test how to catalyse the union movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI. This work threw up several lessons that apply more generally to the adoption of AI across the public sector – the risks and benefits; the challenges and opportunities; and the roles that workers can and should play in AI’s development, deployment and evaluation – which I’ve th...