Artificial Intelligence: Principles to Protect Workers

By AFL-CIO.

Summary: Sets out labor-movement principles for governing AI deployment to protect workers from job displacement and unchecked automation.

Relevance: Falls in the Labor & Economy subdomain: sets out union-articulated standards for governing workplace AI, relevant to social workers who advise on or organize around algorithmic management, surveillance, and job displacement.

Key findings: The principles call for advance notice and bargaining before AI deployment, human review of AI-driven hiring, discipline, and pay decisions, whistleblower protections, and employer liability when AI systems cause harm; the report frames unions as “the largest training institution in the nation, second only to the Department of Defense.”

Read the original: https://aflcio.org/reports/workers-first-ai