AI Schism Grips Washington as Tech, Labor Vie for Upper Hand

“Staffers can become more informed about AI by staying home and using AI.”

Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg

At a historic auditorium in Washington this week, Silicon Valley executives, Trump administration officials and members of Congress gathered in a sea of button-down shirts to extol the virtues of artificial intelligence.

Two days later, labor leaders joined a handful of US lawmakers in a DC hotel ballroom to strategize how to fight back as AI threatens to displace workers and remake the global economy.