HILL TECH BRIEF: Workers Must Have Voice in AI, Schumer Says

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) emerged from a closed-door forum with business and labor leaders with “some degree of optimism” about artificial intelligence’s potential to benefit workers, rather than hurt them.

The AI deployment process would need to involve workers and provide them with the necessary training to adapt to the technology, Schumer said.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) leaves after a meeting on AI.

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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who’s leading the chamber’s AI efforts with Schumer, Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.), said if leveraged, AI may work to speed up tasks and reduce burnout at the workplace. Nurses could potentially spend more time with their patients instead ...