AI Schism Grips Washington as Tech, Labor Vie for Upper Hand

At a historic auditorium in Washington this week, Silicon Valley executives, Trump administration officials and members of Congress gathered in a sea of button-down shirts to extol the virtues of artificial intelligence.

Two days later, labor leaders joined a handful of US lawmakers in a DC hotel ballroom to strategize how to fight back as AI threatens to displace workers and remake the global economy.

The dueling events – one funded by top tech companies including OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the other sponsored by the powerful labor union AFL-CIO – stood out in a week of AI forums ...