Worker Futures & Digital Dignity

The Tech Policy Design Institute acknowledges and pays our respects to all First Nations people.

We recognise and celebrate that among many things, Indigenous people were Australia's first tech innovators.

There are places in Australia that adopt AI really well and places that have learned their lessons.

Where artificial intelligence has been adopted the best is just at that central basic point of giving workers agency and power in making the decisions that affect them, giving them security of employment, permission to experiment, and then working with workers to adopt it in the most effective and productive way.

Welcome to Tech Mirror, the podcast where we talk about how technology is shaping our world and how we, the humans, can shape technology back.

I'm Johanna Weaver, your host, and today my guest is Joseph Mitchell.

He's the Assistant Secretary at the ACTU, the Australian Council for Trade Unions.

And the ACTU is the peak body for unions in Australia.

They represent about 30 different unions or 38 different unions to be precise around Australia.

And together they represent about 2 million different Australians and their families.

So I'm quite sure we're going to have a fascinating conversation with Joseph today about AI and the future of work.

So Joe, welcome to the podcast.