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How can unions use generative AI in their work?

Watch Nick Scott’s Unions21 webinar recording for a great introduction to generative AI, how it works, and how it might have use cases in our unions.

Building Union Power to Rein in the AI Boss

Christina Colclough and Kate Lappin write in the Stanford Social Innovation Review about how AI systems are designed and governed, and how when workers collectivise their demands they can win a say over the use of AI at work.

AI Summit is dominated by Big Tech and a “missed opportunity”, civil society orgs tell PM

More than 100 civil society organisations from across the UK and world have branded the government’s AI Summit as “a missed opportunity”. In an open letter to Rishi Sunak they warn the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit” while a select few corporations seek to shape the rules.

UX: A human-centred approach to strengthening trade unions

Finnish developer and unionist Antti Mäki makes a case for unions to adopt User Experience (UX) principles when designing new services and processes.

Have unions considered the opportunities of AI?

A thread from Nick Scott on his experiments with chatbots for unions.

Investigating how AI is understood and impacting Welsh workers and trade unionists

Wales TUC are looking into how AI is affecting workers across different sectors, and how trade unionists are managing the increasing roll out of data-driven technologies.

The Union Way 2.0 – driven by data

A DAMA webinar with CSP Head of Data Jenny Andrew and Unions21’s Becky Wright about how unions work with data.

The internationalisation features of Join Together

JoinTogether highlight new functionality releases, prompted by international and cross-border needs.

Complete guide: Best social media sites for your union in 2023

Australian union communicator Alex White rounds up social networks as they might apply to trade unions.

Trade union website league table 2023

Simon Parry has rounded up the changes in website domain authority across unions over the last year. How did you do?