Labor Unions Work to Find Ways to Bargain With AI’s Black Box

Unions are trying to figure out how to protect their members from artificial intelligence programs they can’t see and may not even be sure are really there.

The U.K.’s Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group for British unions representing more than 5.5 million people, is forming an AI taskforce to lobby employers and regulators to increase transparency around where the technology is being deployed, and to offer workers recourse if they believe they’ve been discriminated against.