Some recent tech unions, like the one in Google, have been pushing more for moral reforms than for payment changes.
Likewise, a bunch of AI engineers could use collective bargaining to help ensure that safety measures get more attention, in AI labs.
There are definitely net-negative unions out there too, so it would need to be done delicately.
In theory there could be some unions that span multiple organizations. That way one org couldn’t easily “fire all of their union staff” and hope that recruiting others would be trivial.
Really, there aren’t too many AI engineers, and these people have a ton of power, so they could be a highly advantaged place to make a union.
I like the idea of AI Engineer Unions.
Some recent tech unions, like the one in Google, have been pushing more for moral reforms than for payment changes.
Likewise, a bunch of AI engineers could use collective bargaining to help ensure that safety measures get more attention, in AI labs.
There are definitely net-negative unions out there too, so it would need to be done delicately.
In theory there could be some unions that span multiple organizations. That way one org couldn’t easily “fire all of their union staff” and hope that recruiting others would be trivial.
Really, there aren’t too many AI engineers, and these people have a ton of power, so they could be a highly advantaged place to make a union.
This has been discussed before: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GNfWT8Xqh89wRaaSg/unions-for-ai-safety
Ah nice, thanks!