Resolution No. 6 Regulating Artificial Intelligence

(amended)

Unifor National will:

  • Lobby the federal government to set up a federal register documenting the use of artificial intelligence in Canada’s production services and communications industries.
  • Study the AI issue further to draft, develop and enforce collective bargaining language that will preserve and protect the workforce as well as journalistic integrity and democracy.

BECAUSE:  

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being explored by our employers as a way to create efficiencies and possibly to eliminate jobs; and
  • AI even has the potential to do harm to our employers, for example by leading to the unfair and unlicensed use of copyrighted materials; and
  • The rapid development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in every industry has the potential to replace unionized workers or reduce their roles, leading to job displacement and insecurity; and
  • The register should be used to monitor the growth of automation and artificial intelligence.

Respectfully Submitted by: Local 62

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