UNIONS must act now to stop employers turning AI into a job-killing catastrophe, Unite policy conference agreed today.

Moving composite 1, London & Eastern’s Wayne Morgan warned that “during the pandemic Cloud technology didn’t just allow many workers to work from home — it allowed employers to collect data from their workforce on a scale, in both detail and volume, never before imagined.”

Though robots are the “most obvious physical manifestation of making human labour redundant, they are not even close to being the main job killers — which are algorithms,” he pointed out.