Resource Roundup: Putting Workers First During the AI Revolution

<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> <div class="header alignfull header--article has-background has-tonal-black-background-color"> <div class="header__layout"> <div class="header__content"> <h1 class="header__title has-h2-variant">Resource Roundup</h1> <p class="has-h3-variant wp-block-paragraph">Putting Workers First During the AI Revolution</p> <div class="header__metadata"><div class="header__metas"><div class="header__meta header__meta--date"> July 2, 2026</div></div></div> <div class="header__metadata"><div class="header__metas"><div class="favorite-block"> <button class="favorite" data-id="251528" data-state="" title="Favorites are not currently available" disabled><span class="favorite__on">Unfavorite</span><span class="favorite__off">Favorite</span><svg class="svg svg--svg-assets-svg-icon-bookmark" role="img" height="15" width="11"><use xlink:href="#svg-assets-svg-icon-bookmark" /></svg></button></div> <div class="header__meta header__meta--taxonomy header__meta--tax-category"> Blog Posts</div> <div class="header__meta header__meta--taxonomy header__meta--tax-program_tax"> <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/economic-opportunities-program/">Economic Opportunities Program</a></div></div></div> </div> </div> <figure class="header__media" role="presentation"> </figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall)"> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-a59044aa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall);flex-basis:25%"> <div style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;margin-right:0" class="post-people"> <div class="post-people__person"> <figure class="post-people__headshot"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="200" height="300" src="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c-200x300.jpeg" class="attachment-mobile size-mobile" alt="" srcset="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c-200x300.jpeg 200w, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c-533x800.jpeg 533w, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c-450x675.jpeg 450w, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c-451x676.jpeg 451w, https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8DF1610B-604F-4854-87C7-DD80CC272B58_1_105_c.jpeg 724w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" style="object-position: 50% 50%" /> </figure> <div class="post-people__info"> <h3 class="post-people__name"> <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/maxwell-johnson/" class="post-people__link"> Maxwell Johnson </a> </h3> <p class="post-people__position"> Senior Research Associate </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-column has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:50%"> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">In the <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/resource-roundup-another-look-at-ai-and-economic-anxiety/">last Resource Roundup</a>, we discussed workers’ concerns about the specter of artificial intelligence and a changing job market. In this edition, we’ll explore why, and how, to prioritize workers as the nature of work changes.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Workers who don’t feel included in decisions affecting them will exercise whatever agency they can find. Incidents of employees resisting employers’ AI strategies have <a href="https://www.inc.com/moses-jeanfrancois/meta-will-now-give-employees-a-30-minute-break-from-ai-surveillance-tool/91354934">provided</a> <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/tokenmaxxing-is-dead-companies-didnt-get-the-roi-from-ai-they-wanted-to-see/">fodder</a> for media observers. A <a href="https://go.writer.com/ai-adoption-enterprise-2026">report</a> commissioned by one AI startup found that more than a quarter of all knowledge workers surveyed, and nearly half those in Gen Z, admit to undermining their company’s AI strategy.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Critics might label as <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/">Luddites</a> those who are skeptical of AI. But when management pushes what it thinks is best for the bottom line, at the expense of their employees’ well-being, workers might see resistance as the only way to protect their livelihoods.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Businesses have reason to care what workers think. AI that’s responsive to workers and designed to <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/pro-worker-ai-explained">complement</a> <a href="https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2026/at-mit-sloan-examining-how-ai-is-and-isnt-improving-health-care/">their skills</a> can improve the value that they offer their customers. What’s more, continuing on a path to a future in which terms of work are dictated, rather than negotiated, risks fracturing the social contract, threatening the stability that allows businesses to thrive in the first place.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">The future of work is a matter of choice, as <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/liba-wenig-rubenstein/">Liba Wenig Rubenstein</a>, who directs our <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/future-of-work/">Future of Work Initiative</a>, has <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-power-to-shape-what-comes-next-writing-the-future-of-work-together/">written</a>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group is-style-default has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3cc1ed3f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">[It] is fundamentally shaped by questions of power and agency, not by technology alone. So, if we want to harness technology to solve problems that people want solved — rather than technology that may render people the problem that needs solving — we need to focus on how power is distributed, exercised, and balanced in the decades ahead.</p> </div> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)" class="wp-block-paragraph">This edition of Resource Roundup offers a look at emerging solutions that balance the needs of workers and the realities of technological change. Learn about <a href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/new-polling-over-9-10-favor-pro-worker-ai-agenda-trust-unions-more-either-party">workers’ attitudes</a> toward AI, how they’re <a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/they-just-formed-the-biggest-tech">claiming agency</a>, and the <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/pro-worker-ai-explained">business case</a> for AI deployment that <a href="https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2026/at-mit-sloan-examining-how-ai-is-and-isnt-improving-health-care/">augments skills</a>, instead of cutting humans out of the equation.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-h5-variant" id="h-afl-cio" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">AFL-CIO</h2> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/good-jobs-policy.html">New Polling: Over 9 in 10 Favor Pro-Worker AI Agenda, Trust Unions More Than Either Party to Deliver</a></p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Unions are enjoying widespread popularity, even if few Americans belong to one. Polling recently released by the AFL-CIO on attitudes toward AI shows that workers are concerned and support greater protections. Many are looking to organized labor to play a lead role in securing them.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">The results of the polling suggest a model for an agenda that places workers’ interests at the center of the debate. Broadly, workers want decision-making to rest with people, transparency about employers’ use of AI, and a say in the development and implementation of the technology in the workplace.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Read the <a href="https://aflcio.org/sites/default/files/2026-05/DBR_AFLCIO_AI_Research_Memo.pdf">full findings</a> from the AFL-CIO and David Binder Research.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-h5-variant" id="h-blood-in-the-machine" style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0">Blood in the Machine</h2> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91326871/how-ai-is-making-workplace-gender-gaps-worse-ai-workplace-gender-gap"></a><a href="https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/the-death-of-the-social-contract-and-the-enshittification-of-jobs/">They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. They plan to rein in AI and curb layoffs</a></p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">IT employees with the University of California system recently voted to join the University and Professional Technical Employees (UPTE) union. The move encompasses more than 2,000 workers, who were sparked to action by concerns about AI. The new members will be covered by an existing contract that provides for collective bargaining over how the technology is used in the workplace.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Greater worker power in the tech sector could show an alternative to the prevailing command-and-control dynamic of management dictating the rules, an organizer told the tech journalist Brian Merchant.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Read Merchant’s <a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/they-just-formed-the-biggest-tech">dispatch</a> on the UPTE organizing drive and what it means for tech workers.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-h5-variant" id="h-mit-sloan-school-of-management">MIT Sloan School of Management</h2> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-unexpected-visionary-pope-francis-on-ai-humanity-and-the-future-of-work/"></a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/ai-deskilling-automation-technology/684669/?gift=aAZLj1nPjyKZaUo8Ol7R-2ppfTHTGinNg54wmyL5vE8">Pro-worker AI, explained</a></p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">In AI, corporate leaders see a productivity boost. But workers often see a threat to their jobs, at least when they aren’t prioritized in decision-making.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">A team of MIT economists created a framework for evaluating the impact on workers of technologies that increase productivity, making the case for AI deployment that builds on workers’ skills and improves businesses’ competitive advantage. It’s an approach that’s focused on expanding how companies can serve their customers, rather than blindly automating existing tasks. </p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/pro-worker-ai-explained">Read more</a> from MIT Sloan about what an AI future that supports workers could look like.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <div class="wp-block-group has-primary-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fecf6f17 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-0531387e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Learn more. </strong></p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:66.66%"> <p class="has-small-variant wp-block-paragraph">A working paper co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Zoë Cullen, <a href="https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/ownership-during-the-ai-revolution/">who spoke at our 2026 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum</a>, introduces a novel legal framework to govern the use by AI of data produced by human labor, strengthening data sovereignty and offering a path to compensation. <a href="https://aiinstitute.hbs.edu/knowledge-guilds-who-owns-your-expertise/">Read here.</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-h5-variant" id="h-mit-spectrum">MIT Spectrum</h2> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-memo-workplace-loyalty-dead-employees-job-security-2025-8">At MIT Sloan, Examining How AI is — and Isn’t — Improving Health Care</a></p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">Medicine has emerged as a lucrative use case for AI. The practice of medicine is a very human one, however — for clinicians and patients alike. Adapting the technology to the realities of clinical practice requires a sensitive approach, the focus of MIT management professor Kate Kellogg’s research.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">For one, AI shouldn’t replace autonomy. An AI tool that flags possible sepsis can alert nurses to review a patient’s chart, rather than replace them in the diagnostic process, for instance. And the outputs of AI tools should be descriptive, informing users of the data that led to a conclusion.</p> <p style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" class="wp-block-paragraph">The key is ensuring that healthcare workers are properly educated on the uses and limitations of AI, Kellogg advises. Read more from MIT about <a href="https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2026/at-mit-sloan-examining-how-ai-is-and-isnt-improving-health-care/">keeping humans at the center</a> when designing AI tools for the medical field. </p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xsmall);flex-basis:25%"> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-05e17e53 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0"> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <div class="wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d862d3ad wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" 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