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Monday, October 27, 2025
AFL-CIO Launches ‘Workers First Initiative on AI’ to Put American Workers at the Future of Artificial Intelligence
AFL-CIO: The AFL-CIO launched today the “Workers First Initiative on AI,” the first comprehensive labor movement agenda establishing principles on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Initiative provides a blueprint for how employers and legislators should advance AI implementation in the workplace to the benefit of America’s working people and economy.
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Maxwell Hamilton
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As a student that's planning on entering into the theater industry workplace. I actually have appreciated some of the AI innovations in the theater world. While the AI actors are definitely the wrong direction of AI. I think it's going to be a powerful tool that can definitely improve the work flow of certain aspects of our industry. There's definitely no reason to make AI generated designs or plans because there's no creativity. The whole point of being a lighting designer or sound designer is that you have the creative liberties of designing the system that your space has. But there are tools that I would appreciate in the industry. I love the concept of AI being able to monitor and tune or give you assistance. This has already existed in many forms, Dan Dugan actually made an automixer for Yamaha mixers a long time ago but technologies like that can definitely be improved with AI. It definitely won't be able to replace human beings, at least not in this life time. But there are certainly use cases for AI now.
Truly this is an initiative that I am glad is happening and being talked about, because I 100% agree with what this initiative is trying to accomplish / push for. AI is a powerful tool, and I believe that it should be considered as such. I do respect the mentality that an AI can have agency and even possibly a personality, but that does not at this point in technological advancements make AI equivalent to a real person. An AI dose not have bills to pay, children / family to take care of, or a necessity for food and water. So due to this line of thinking real people should then be reaping the benefits of AI especially if reaping these benefits can lead to a decline in poverty and people who are struggling financially. Simply put AI has the power to either help our economy and help create / enhance jobs, or it has the power to replace exiting job and hurt our economy. When it is said like this the correct initiative is clear, and this is the exact initiative that is being described in this article.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. AI has evolved extremely quickly so we need to evolve with it. With the recently emerging AI actor, Tilly Norwood, this has become increasingly clear. This AI was seeking representation as an actor. This just makes absolutely zero sense to me. In an industry with already limited job opportunities, why give some to AI? Also, how do you give feedback about performance to AI? This would clearly be taking away jobs from other Americans. For example, companies are now using these AI’s to replace existing marketing and media teams. AI can be such a great tool, and I think we need to learn how to work with it. It can certainly be used to assist us and improve our workflows and productivity. In my opinion, AI should not really be used in the creative industry, as the biggest part of it is the lived human experience.
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As a student that's planning on entering into the theater industry workplace. I actually have appreciated some of the AI innovations in the theater world. While the AI actors are definitely the wrong direction of AI. I think it's going to be a powerful tool that can definitely improve the work flow of certain aspects of our industry. There's definitely no reason to make AI generated designs or plans because there's no creativity. The whole point of being a lighting designer or sound designer is that you have the creative liberties of designing the system that your space has. But there are tools that I would appreciate in the industry. I love the concept of AI being able to monitor and tune or give you assistance. This has already existed in many forms, Dan Dugan actually made an automixer for Yamaha mixers a long time ago but technologies like that can definitely be improved with AI. It definitely won't be able to replace human beings, at least not in this life time. But there are certainly use cases for AI now.
Truly this is an initiative that I am glad is happening and being talked about, because I 100% agree with what this initiative is trying to accomplish / push for. AI is a powerful tool, and I believe that it should be considered as such. I do respect the mentality that an AI can have agency and even possibly a personality, but that does not at this point in technological advancements make AI equivalent to a real person. An AI dose not have bills to pay, children / family to take care of, or a necessity for food and water. So due to this line of thinking real people should then be reaping the benefits of AI especially if reaping these benefits can lead to a decline in poverty and people who are struggling financially. Simply put AI has the power to either help our economy and help create / enhance jobs, or it has the power to replace exiting job and hurt our economy. When it is said like this the correct initiative is clear, and this is the exact initiative that is being described in this article.
This is definitely a step in the right direction. AI has evolved extremely quickly so we need to evolve with it. With the recently emerging AI actor, Tilly Norwood, this has become increasingly clear. This AI was seeking representation as an actor. This just makes absolutely zero sense to me. In an industry with already limited job opportunities, why give some to AI? Also, how do you give feedback about performance to AI? This would clearly be taking away jobs from other Americans. For example, companies are now using these AI’s to replace existing marketing and media teams. AI can be such a great tool, and I think we need to learn how to work with it. It can certainly be used to assist us and improve our workflows and productivity. In my opinion, AI should not really be used in the creative industry, as the biggest part of it is the lived human experience.
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