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Title: America's Labor Unions are Backing State Regulations for AI Use in
Workplaces

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/051221...

"As employers and tech companies rush to deploy AI software into workplaces
to improve efficiency, labor unions are stepping up work with state lawmakers
across the nation to place guardrails on its use..." reports the Washington
Post. "Union leaders say they must intervene to protect workers from the
potential for AI to cause massive job displacement or infringe on employment
rights." In Massachusetts, the Teamsters labor union is backing a proposed
state law that would require autonomous vehicles to have a human safety
operator who can intervene during the ride, effectively forbidding truly
driverless rides. Oregon lawmakers recently passed a bill supported by the
Oregon Nurses Association that prohibits AI from using the title "nurse" or
any associated abbreviations. The American Federation of Labor and Congress
of Industrial Organizations, a federation of 63 national and international
labor unions, launched a national task force last month to work with state
lawmakers on more laws that regulate automation and AI affecting workers...
The AFL-CIO task force plans to help unions take on problematic use of AI in
collective bargaining and contracts and in coming months to develop a slate
of model legislation available to state leaders, modeled on recently passed
and newly proposed legislation in places including California and
Massachusetts. The president of the California Federation of Labor Unions
also supports a proposed state law "that would prevent employers from
primarily relying on AI software to automate decisions like terminations or
disciplinary actions," according to the article. "Instead, humans would have
to review decisions. The law would also prohibit use of tools that predict
workers' behaviors, emotional states and personality."

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