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UNIONS must act now to stop employers turning AI into a job-killing catastrophe, Unite policy conference agreed today.
Moving composite 1, London & Eastern’s Wayne Morgan warned that “during the pandemic Cloud technology didn’t just allow many workers to work from home — it allowed employers to collect data from their workforce on a scale, in both detail and volume, never before imagined.”
Though robots are the “most obvious physical manifestation of making human labour redundant, they are not even close to being the main job killers — which are algorithms,” he pointed out.
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
