Tom McGrath at Politico recently sat down with National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, who told him the American Labor Federation’s main goal with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is for Organized Labor to have “a seat at the table,” as she puts, in the roll-out of AI - meaning she wants Workers to have a voice in everything from how technology is developed to how it’s regulated to how it’s deployed in individual companies.  Among the companies is Microsoft, with whom the AFL-CIO recently inked a new partnership that gives Workers the kind of input Shuler talks about.  Of course, in some respects what Shuler is pushing for symbolizes something even deeper.  Two of the most disruptive events in American life over the past 40 years - deindustrialization and the rise of digital technology - were more or less imposed on the American Public without average people having much say in what happened.  When it comes to the AI revolution that’s now upon us - a revolution that could be very good or very bad - Shuler wants to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

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