The stark reality is that the only way unions can protect workers from being displaced by AI, is if AI becomes a member. Human labour is losing ground to AI, simply because it increasingly can do a better job.

This runaway train is fueled by the inherent competitive advantage machine labour has over human labor. Its cost is declining exponentially while its performance is increasing rapidly.

Trying to use twentieth century tools like unions and labour laws to prevent the current accelerating disruption of human socioeconomic equilibrium is akin to “pushing on a string”.

We need to develop twenty-first century solutions that acknowledge the reality of this emerging paradigm instead of futile efforts to stuff it into Pandora’s box. This requires a huge and courageous leap forward in thinking. As usual, it’s the job of artists to begin the conversations and blaze the trail.

Let AI join the unions, but it only gets one vote.