Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a profit opportunity for capitalists, but it presents a crucial choice for the working class. Because the working class is the majority, that crucial choice confronts society as a whole. It is the same profit opportunity/social choice that was presented by the introduction of robotics, computers, and indeed by most technological advances throughout capitalism’s history. In capitalism, employers decide when, where, and how to install new technologies; employees do not. Employers’ decisions are driven chiefly by whether and how new technologies affect their profits. More

Can American workers stop the concession bargaining that has devastated their incomes for more than four decades now? Can union labor come up with a strategy and effective response to protect their jobs from technology/AI in the decades to come? Those are the two most important challenges facing the American labor movement. And one thing is certain: relying on Democrat party politicians, or their no less anti-worker Republican political cousins, is a dead end. Either wing of the Corporate Party of America (Dems or Republicans) won’t lift a finger to help workers. But they’ll make promises and promises in this election year. And then give workers the ‘finger’ afterward, as they have for more than 40 years now. More