We Need More Worker Voice When Implementing AI
We need more worker voices when implementing AI. Employers can enact these strategies to ensure that workplace AI is a win-win for business and workers.
Workers, Labor, and the Innovation Economy
We examine science, labor, and industrial policy approaches and "win-win" models that foster collaborations among workers, economic developers, technologists, and employers in the development and implementation of AI and advanced technologies.
New America’s Future of Work and Innovation Economy (FOWIE) initiative is undertaking research, storytelling, and policy efforts to understand, incubate, and promote practical ways to restore and renew American worker power and job quality as emerging technologies and technological innovation shape our labor markets.
Building our prior partnership with the World Economic Forum, our work aims to position better labor policy, labor unions, and worker-centered organizations to maximize the opportunities and mitigate the risks of emerging technologies on work and workers in collaboration with employers, educators, policymakers, and R&D organizations. This collections page highlights our work across this intersection.
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Blogs and Articles
Labor Unions at the Center of DOE’s $7 Billion Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program
The Biden Administration highlighted labor and community engagement in announcements of seven selectees for its $7 billion Clean Hydrogen Hubs.
How Labor Unions Are Navigating AI
Labor unions have an important role to play in ensuring that AI is a win-win for workers and employers and that good jobs exist in the innovation economy.
Energy Department Funds First IACs at Community Colleges, Trade Unions
The Energy Department's IAC program will help community colleges and trade unions promote equitable workforce development for green jobs.
Labor Unions Become More Influential As Technology Impacts Jobs
Shalin Jyotishi published an article in Forbes about labor unions and the emerging hydrogen industry.
Here's how employers can make sure technology improves jobs
In order to make sure workplace technologies improve jobs, employers should collaborate with labor unions and co-design technologies with employees.
Why workplace technologies must be beneficial to both employers and employees
Organizations need to ensure that the workplace technologies they adopt are implemented in a human-centred way that benefits both employers and employees.
How AI Can Improve Job Quality
Shalin Jyotishi wrote an article for Forbes about insights from workers on how employers can ensure that AI makes jobs better.
Reflections on the Shift Commission’s Predictions on the Future of Work, Five Years Later
Thought leaders revisit the Shift report and consider what the commission got right, what they didn’t see coming, and what the future might hold.
Here’s How U.S. Workers And Employers Can Co-Design Workplace Tech
Shalin Jyotishi wrote an article for Forbes about how U.S. workers and employers can co-design workplace tech.
The Role of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Navigating AI
What is the EEOC and how can it help maximize the benefits and mitigate the harms of AI on workers?
Community college and labor union partnerships are a win-win in the AI era
Labor-community college partnerships could increase enrollment and union membership value while expanding upskilling options for millions of adults.
Reports
New World Economic Forum White Paper Outlines the State of Play for the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Human Resources Professionals
The World Economic Forum, with contributions from the Center on Education and Labor at New America and the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Turkey, an affiliate center of the World Economic Forum, published a white paper, Human-Centred AI for HR: State of Play and the Path Ahead, and the “Human-Centred AI for Human Resources: A Toolkit for Human Resources Professionals” toolkit to scale the responsible use of artificial intelligence in HR.
Events
Ensuring Workplace Technologies are a “win-win” for Workers and Employers
A discussion on how to ensure that workplace technologies benefit employers and workers equally.
Revisiting the “Future of Work”
A discussion about the future of work, building on the work of the Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology.
Rebuilding Labor and Worker Power to Respond to AI
A discussion with labor, policy, and industry leaders about renewing U.S. worker and labor power to maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks of AI on workers.
Building Worker Power in the Energy Economy
A discussion with the Good Jobs Collaborative and the U.S. Department of Energy.