Artificial Intelligence: Principles to Protect Workers

Artificial Intelligence: Principles to Protect Workers
AFL-CIO
October 2025

This report from the AFL-CIO highlights the need for carefully incorporating AI into workplaces to protect workers and give workers a voice in its implementation. The report includes information about:

  • strengthening labor rights,
  • broadening opportunities for collective bargaining,
  • advancing guardrails against harmful AI uses,
  • promoting intellectual property protections,
  • developing worker-centered workforce development and trainings,
  • institutionalizing worker voice,
  • requiring transparency,
  • modeling best practices for AI use,
  • and protecting workers’ civil rights.