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AFL-CIO urges guardrails for AI 

Federation says workers must help shape how new technologies are employed

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 10/24/25

In what it called the labor movement’s “first principles” regarding the future of artificial intelligence, the AFL-CIO has called for enforceable protections to ensure that AI strengthens — and doesn’t threaten — the livelihoods, rights and safety of working people.

The nation’s largest labor federation earlier this week outlined its vision for a “worker-centered” approach to technology, arguing in a four-page report that AI should be developed and deployed through collective bargaining and genuine labor-management collaboration, with strong safeguards against surveillance, bias and job loss.

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