This report warns that artificial intelligence (AI) could deepen insecurity and inequality unless workers are given power over how technology is deployed. The age of AI will be defined not only by the technologies it unleashes, but by the political choices made in response to them. By rebuilding worker power now, progressives can ensure that the gains of AI are broadly shared, its risks are collectively managed and the dignity of work is preserved for the decades ahead.

Key findings

• Artificial intelligence is the latest technology to raise the spectre of human labour becoming obsolete. 
• Workers want the power to both shape and adapt to AI’s impacts.
• As AI is deployed in the real economy, progressives should seek to give workers greater power over how these new technologies are adopted.
• Portable benefits should be designed to strengthen worker agency and in turn support a more dynamic and adaptable labour market.