by: Gary

There’s new news about AI every day, almost too much, and much of it fluff, hype, or debate over fluff and hype. Here’s some resources, organizations and articles we’ve found helpful.

Blogs, Substacks and Reporting

• Blood in the Machine
• Cory Doctorow
• Ed Zitron
• Hard Reset
• Labor Notes
• EWOC Blog
• Organizing Work

Books and Resources on Worker Organizing

• Unite & Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer
• You Deserve a Tech Union
• DMs Open: Winning Remote Organizing

Recommend books on AI

• Empire of AI

Allied Campaigns

• Amazon Employees for Climate Justice Employee Open Letterx

Research Resources

• TUC generative AI policy toolkit
• Negotiating Tech: An Inventory of U.S. Union Contract Provisions for the Digital Age
• AI, algorithmic and automation harms taxonomy
• AIAAIC Repository of Incidents and Controversies

Organizing Trainings and Support

• Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
• Labor Notes
• Code-CWA

U.S. Tech Unions and other Allied Organizations

• Code-CWA
• Tech 1010
• Collective Action in Tech
• Tech Workers Coalition
• Distributed AI Research Institute
• Turkopticon

Various Articles

• A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable
• AI Killed My Job
• News Unions Grapple with Generative AI
• Artificial Intelligence as a Union Buster
• What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
• National Nurses United survey finds A.I. technology degrades and undermines patient safety
• Seismic Report reveals public souring on AI
• Present Tense Technology - how labor has responded to automation in the past
• Bits in the Machine