After a decade-long hiatus, Rank and File Radio returns with hosts Doug Nesbitt and Andrew Stevens. To kick off our special series on labour and AI, we've invited Keith Brower Brown to the podcast. Keith is a Labor Center affiliate researcher at UC Berkeley and organizer with Labor Notes and he helps us explore how workers and unions can respond to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Keith draws parallels to just transition politics in the fossil fuel industry, warns about the danger of AI eroding on-the-job learning and creativity, and argues that without strong, democratic unions pushing back, executives will use AI primarily as a pretext to cut workers, regardless of whether the technology actually does their jobs well.

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Photo (Creative Commons): Crowd gathered outside the Union Bank of Canada building on Main Street during the Winnipeg General Strike

Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu

Date(s) : 21 June 1919 / 21 juin 1919

Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3192170, 3623541