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ILO Jumps Right In on AI Impact on Employment

We are off to a good start as the first serious conversation on AI is happening at the UN agency for labour standards, the International Labour Organisation.

Its Director-General brought together the UN Tech Envoy, scholars, and the private sector (OpenAI and Microsoft were the only technology companies present) for a panel that answered to probing questions by diplomats and representatives of GRULAC, African Union, employers’ sector organizations, trade union representatives, and other intergovernmental bodies.

They addressed mainly questions related to employment and social protection, which are managed by individual countries, and therefore the touted myth that AI will permit a global workforce to work anywhere is moot, as the question of contribution to social protection schemes remains unanswered.

Also the question of wages for workers in the Global South that are labelling data, the cornerstone of AI, for Big Tech, and are being paid…