The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), which represents tech workers, is to hold an AI ‘counter summit’ to highlight the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs.<\/p>\n
It comes ahead of the International AI Summit which takes place in Dublin on Wednesday as part of Ireland’s EU Presidency.<\/p>\n
The CWU said the event will present a “real world” analysis of the impact of AI on workers and highlight opposition to the adoption of new technologies without consultation with staff.<\/p>\n
The event is organised by the Digital and Tech Workers Alliance branch of the CWU.<\/p>\n
“The idea that AI should be developed and deployed simply for profit, regardless of its impact on workers and communities is dangerous,” said CWU Deputy General Secretary Ian McArdle.<\/p>\n
He said: “We need to create space for critical voices.<\/p>\n
“We need to reject tech products that oppose our social interests and big tech\u2019s desire to achieve AI profitability at all costs.”<\/p>\n
The Government has said it wants the voices of workers to be included at the International AI Summit.<\/p>\n
One of the panel discussions at the event will focus on the changing world of work and will include representatives from the Ibec group Technology Ireland and the CWU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), which represents tech workers, is to hold an AI ‘counter summit’ to highlight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-650154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}