Randi Weingarten Details Agreement with Microsoft: ‘We’re Seeing that AI Is About to Control Us’

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WEINGARTEN: “Look, we saw what was going on with AI a few years ago, and there has been a long-term relationship between the AFL and Microsoft as a way of trying to work together when you can, labor and industry, in terms of making — actually making America better. So through that, we said to Brad, look, we’re seeing that AI is about to control us. We want teachers in classrooms to actually be in control, to be in the driver’s seat. So we started that AI institute over a year ago. But part of that was, we needed to ensure parents and teachers that data was going to be safe, that data was going to be private. And you can’t do that unless you do it with the tech providers, because they do the infrastructure.”