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The Tech Workers Building A.I. Are Scared of It, Too

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/opinion/ai-tech-worker-organizing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What explains the gap? The standard answer points to culture. Tech workers often see themselves as professionals aligned with management, not laborers facing exploitation; they identify with their companies’ purported missions of driving innovation and solving complex challenges; they are well compensated and enjoy conditions that other workers envy.

But recent research suggests that the tech industry’s unique professional culture can also enable collective action. Tech workers often choose their careers at least in part because they believe technology can benefit society. When their employers violate that belief by building drone targeting systems, supporting immigration enforcement agencies or harvesting workers’ expertise to train their replacements, many experience it as a profound betrayal.

Unlike in much of Western Europe, where workers are unionized at high levels and can bargain as an entire sector to address problems in their industries, in the United States the legal system makes organizing and bargaining exceedingly difficult.
 
philb2 said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/opinion/ai-tech-worker-organizing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What explains the gap? The standard answer points to culture. Tech workers often see themselves as professionals aligned with management, not laborers facing exploitation; they identify with their companies’ purported missions of driving innovation and solving complex challenges; they are well compensated and enjoy conditions that other workers envy.

But recent research suggests that the tech industry’s unique professional culture can also enable collective action. Tech workers often choose their careers at least in part because they believe technology can benefit society. When their employers violate that belief by building drone targeting systems, supporting immigration enforcement agencies or harvesting workers’ expertise to train their replacements, many experience it as a profound betrayal.

Unlike in much of Western Europe, where workers are unionized at high levels and can bargain as an entire sector to address problems in their industries, in the United States the legal system makes organizing and bargaining exceedingly difficult.
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Not just that. People have been told for a long time now that tech jobs are the future and that we need lots of them. AI is coming for all their jobs now even faster than it is coming for the trades. For decades people were told to go get a university education and that tech jobs were pretty much guaranteed to get jobs. The script is getting flipped on its head now and people are not happy.
 
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