Strike while AI is hot: Rebuilding worker power for the age of AI (opens in new tab)

Artificial intelligence is the latest technology to raise the spectre of human labour becoming obsolete. AI technologies can now perform complex cognitive tasks that were once considered exclusively human. If businesses adopt these technologies at scale to replace human work, this could generate a significant productivity windfall – one that is likely to be unevenly distributed throughout society. AI-driven automation is not a new economic phenomenon: throughout history, technological change ...