Why AI Researchers Need To Hear More From Workers and Unions

At a time when many nations aim to lead the global race around artificial intelligence, quantum science, and other emerging technologies, policymakers need to better understand how to maximally serve the public interest. Central to that goal is the need for taxpayer-funded research and development leaders to understand the downstream ramifications of their technologies on the frontline workers who will use them.

To do that, policymakers should task government agencies that fund this work to study, pilot, and scale approaches that foster partnerships between the labor sector and R&D leaders in academia, industry, and technology-based economic development.

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