Mary Towers
@MaryMay_ling
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Tech policy adviser, employment lawyer, writer. Views my own, re-tweets not necessarily endorsements.
Joined June 2021
📢💥Excited to announce publication of @The_TUC AI Bill in collaboration with @AILawHub @CloistersLaw @MCTDCambridge! Drafted with multi-stakeholder advisory committee: https://t.co/WeWqZyiJhF
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Worker led innovation is the key to just, equitable, sustainable and truly beneficial use of AI at work. This timely and important report from @jlthorne_ @Autonomy_Inst sets out historical examples we can draw on to ensure AI innovation is directed to benefit all:
Excited to finally see this out in the world.
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More consultation needed with workers on introducing AI in workplace says TUC employment rights officer https://t.co/GsQ6NCVNDr
#recruitment @The_TUC #AI #APPG @MaryMay_ling
recruiter.co.uk
According to Mary Towers, an employment rights policy officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), research into the uses of AI in the workplace is showing that using technology to recruit and manage...
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NEW: 'Managing Technology That Manages People' launched today🤖 Read our thoughts 👇 (🔗 Link to publication in bio)
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The @OECD’s Digital Economy Outlook calls for ✔️affordable or free training ✔️tackling the digital gender gap ✔️engaging with trade unions on skills 🙄'"It is a pity that it fails to support a right to training or paid training leave" @V_Nilsson 🔗 https://t.co/PqLizfJy8K
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👉Trade unions have ✔️A long history supporting working people thru technological change ✔️Negotiated deals on #AI with IBM, ZeniMax & US Film & TV Producers ... 🟰Why Governments should promote collective bargaining in regulating #AI
@V_Nilsson at @OECD Forum on Well-being
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🤖#AI can 🙂improve working lives & livelihoods 😮disrupt labour markets & exacerbate inequality Govs must ensure robust regulation to 👍guarantee workers’ rights 👍give unions a legal right to info & consultation on AI in work @V_Nilsson tells @OECD Forum on Well-being
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📣Register now for our online panel on the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI. - @halcyene, @AdaLovelaceInst - @ambaonadventure, @AINowInstitute - @HaydnBelfield, @CSERCambridge - @MaryMay_ling, @The_TUC 🗓️11 November 🕔17:00 UK time https://t.co/QYZguYu3wc
adalovelaceinstitute.org
Join the Ada Lovelace Institute as we make sense of the current AI policy landscape and debate the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI.
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🌐 The ILO Observatory on AI & Work in the Digital Economy is launching soon! This hub will lead global research and conversations on the future of work, AI, and digital platforms. 🗓️ 25 Sept | 🕓 16:30 (Geneva) 📺 Watch live: https://t.co/hB4TBvz5Hv
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🚨Shaping the advancement of artificial intelligence through social dialogue 🇮🇹 Joint statement by L7 and B7 - the unions and business leaders of @G7 countries 👉to be presented to G7 Labour and Employment Ministers today 🔗 https://t.co/o0n9p4SCKX
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🎧 "What is not acceptable is when my art and my identity can simply be taken by a third party and exploited falsely for their own gain." - #SagAftraMember FKA Twigs Check out the newest SAG-AFTRA podcast episode on A.I. developments. Listen now: https://t.co/Jx45tpiiNl
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This report calls for an analysis of the employment rights & AI space. Read a proposed bill on this very topic drafted by @RobinAllenKC and @Dee_Masters for @The_TUC which is available here:
tuc.org.uk
This paper sets out the background to the TUC Artificial Intelligence (Employment and Regulation) Bill, the multi-stakeholder process behind the drafting, why the Bill is needed, and how it could...
We have published a report on the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Read it here: https://t.co/C5lNVRIrMH
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🚨 Today we are launching our agenda for a better working future. Your rights at work, union freedoms and the future of our planet are on the table at this election. Visit our general election hub to read our key policy asks for our members. https://t.co/H72B6nNw0i
prospect.org.uk
Here are Prospect’s policy priorities, driven by our members.
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Important piece from experts across EU Parliament, JTC-21, academia We at Ada called for an empowered AI Office as our no.1 recommendation during the AI Act trilogues -- it is essential to get the structure, culture + ecosystem around the Office right! https://t.co/iaAZXGYWRZ
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Labour 7 urges the #G7 EWG and Labour & Employment Minister to: - guarantee social dialogue and respect for workers’ rights in the deployment of AI - advance decent work in the care economy @cgilnazionale @CislNazionale @UILofficial @TUACOECD
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The race for AI is about economic change & how we handle it, as much as it is about technologies. That needs a focus on everyday AI and what it means for people & jobs not just tech. My thoughts on AI strategy for @progbrit 👉 https://t.co/NYQqBvkLDe
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Tech Transformed is Saturday, and our second session of the day will be with... @AdamC_Corn! Alongside the TUC's Mary Towers and other reps from the labour movement, Adam will be discussing how trade unions need to respond as workers move into a Fourth Industrial Revolution ✊💻
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USA government publishes AI principles for worker well being, including importance of worker consultation
dol.gov
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Read more about his experience of the conference and AI here in his blog:
prospect.org.uk
Tech Workers Branch Committee Vice Chair Domanic Smith–Jones attended the 2024 Uni Global ICTS Conference...
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Tech Workers Branch Committee Vice Chair Domanic Smith-Jones attended the @uniglobalunion ICTS Conference in Cape Town recently 💻 Domanic introduced Prospect’s motion on the regulation of AI, with Uni Global delegates from across the world voting in favour.
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Reported in Politico, today with @The_TUC and @OpenRightsGroup we're calling out how the hand waving at ‘inclusivity’ amounts to little when select corporations, govs and narrow perspectives are still dictating the trajectory of AI. #AISeoulSummit
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