How labor movements may help rebalance power in the technology sector

Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace, a Rutgers study has found. Rutgers researchers examined the 2023 contract for the labor union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Their research highlights strategies for workers to use to push back through forming workers collectives around technology, developing more people-centered policies and forging solidarities with transnational labor.