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Here’s what I hear from Workers about AI - and what I see as the best path forward.","source":"WNY Labor Today","date":"2026-09-22T13:51:24+00:00","content":"National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler On Artificial Intelligence In the Workplace: “It Shouldn’t Require Doomsday Warnings To Wake Up To The Very Real Threats That AI Inflicts On Us Every Day”\n(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has released the following statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI):\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in the news recently.\nHere’s what I hear from Workers about AI - and what I see as the best path forward.\nFirst, we need to broaden the conversation about what “AI safety” means.\nYes, it means thinking about the societal danger these technologies pose long-term if they go unchecked.\nBut for Workers: The threat is a lot more real, day to day, right in front of us.\nAI surveilling us at work.\nAutomation taking our jobs.\nThe existential threat Workers feel is about what an AI future means to our jobs, paychecks, privacy and safety.\nOur livelihoods.\nThe very things that we rely on to keep our households running every single day.\nBy talking about how we can empower Workers - strengthening Union Rights, passing legislation to protect children’s exposure to these platforms, forming partnerships with companies to upskill Workers - we’re protecting ourselves from the most existential threats that AI poses.\nWe need clear, principled leadership we can trust that doesn't have ulterior motives in regulating this sector.\nThat extends to politicians, too.\nWe cannot and will not count on those directly taking PAC money from Big Tech companies to pass laws regulating those same companies.\nIt shouldn’t require doomsday warnings to wake up to the very real threats that AI inflicts on us every day.\nUnions have been on the front lines of this fight for years because it’s Workers who pay the price if we take the wrong path.\nThis is our future.\nOur message to politicians at every level: Center Working People in everything you do.\nThat’s the ONLY way to get this right.","confidence":0.9,"diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.wnylabortoday.com/news/2026/09/22/labor-news-from-washington-d.c./national-afl-cio-president-liz-shuler-on-artificial-intelligence-in-the-workplace-it-shouldn-t-require-doomsday-warnings-to-wake-up-to-the-very-real-threats-that-ai-inflicts-on-us-every-day/","quality_bucket":"high","failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"quality_reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 1942 characters.","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 1942 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":1942,"summary_length":477,"usable_text_length":1942,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":1942,"summary_length":477}},"tags":[],"format_contract_version":"news_item_formats.v1"}}}