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US Unions Demand AI Safeguards as Google and Character.AI Lawsuit Advances

Global estimates that AI could threaten up to 300 million jobs have intensified unions’ calls for binding protections, transparency requirements, clearer liability standards.

As artificial intelligence threatens to upend entire sectors of the economy, American labor unions have been scrambling to protect workers
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Overview

  • Unions like the International Longshoremen’s Association and SAG-AFTRA have secured moratoriums on port automation and guaranteed actor consultations on AI-generated likenesses in recent contracts.
  • Legislative bids in multiple states to restrict autonomous trucks faced vetoes by governors, and federal guidelines encouraging AI workplace transparency were rescinded early this year.
  • The Communications Workers of America has published negotiation guides and educational toolkits to help members include AI provisions in collective bargaining agreements.
  • The International Labour Organization warned that AI and automation may affect up to 300 million full-time jobs worldwide without robust reskilling programs.
  • A Florida court’s decision to allow Megan Garcia’s lawsuit against Google and Character.AI over an alleged chatbot-driven teen suicide to proceed is set to test emerging AI liability standards.