On 30 November, the European telecommunications sector’s social partners (ETNO – employers & Uni Europa trade unions) signed a Joint Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which emphasizes the importance of social dialogue for AI design and deployment, and in particular for issues such as data collection and management, as well as developing ethical AI.
The declaration’s signatories argue that the challenges posed by the development of this technology cannot be solved without the involvement of social partners and social dialogue. ‘European trade unions and employer organisations as social partners have an essential role to play in resolving complex questions regarding employment, training, the nature of work, inequality, and social protection systems,’ the joint declaration emphasized, and for these reasons it also affirmed the need for policy makers to listen and cooperate with the social partners and to pay attention to the views of those concerned by the development of this technology.
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