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AN industrial strategy needs to be drawn up to deal with the rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the railways, RMT declared at its Hull AGM today.
The union will now assess the AI threat in workplaces where it organises, seeking proactive collective bargaining agreements that enshrine human accountability for management decisions and seek to recruit the new types of rail workers who use AI in the transport system.
In a tightly debated motion, delegates found themselves tied 36 for and 36 against, with one abstention.
In the second and final part of his article MIKE SCOTT posits that if we don’t control AI while we’ve got the chance, we could be signing the death warrant for our children and grandchildren
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
