May Day in the age of AI: The new war on workers
As companies pour billions into AI, the fight for workers’ rights is being rewritten as a fight for the right to work.
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As corporations invest billions in AI, workers' rights are shifting from a focus on labor conditions to a fundamental fight for employment itself. Major companies like Amazon are planning massive layoffs and replacing workers with automation, with the US leading global AI development driven by capitalist incentives to replace human labor with machines. The article argues that May Day's original fight for an eight-hour workday now faces a new threat: workers being displaced entirely by artificial intelligence.