Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI
- Pact covers a few hundred workers at Microsoft gaming studio
- AI has become contentious issue in several labor disuptes
Microsoft calls its AI products copilots, which is meant to convey that they work with employees rather than replacing them.
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Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology.
As part of negotiations with the Communications Workers of America – the first US collective bargaining in the company’s history – Microsoft has reached a tentative agreement on an AI article to include in a contract covering a few hundred staff at Microsoft’s video game studio ZeniMax.