Shaping the transition: Artificial intelligence and social dialogue
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Rapid advances in the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provide new opportunities but also raise fears about disruptive labour market and workplace transitions. This working paper examines how social dialogue can shape the AI transition in beneficial ways for both workers and firms. It highlights that social dialogue can generally help foster inclusive labour markets and ease technological transitions, and presents new descriptive evidence together with ongoing initiatives from social partners showing that social dialogue has an important role to play in the AI transition as well. The paper also discusses how AI adoption may affect social dialogue itself, e.g. by adding new pressures on weakening labour relations systems and posing practical challenges to social partners, such as insufficient AI-related expertise and resources to respond to the AI transition. Based on these insights, the paper suggests a few measures for policy makers who would like to support social partners’ efforts in shaping the AI transition.
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Providing citizens with the opportunity to share hands-on AI knowledge and to voice expectations with respect to the introduction of different kinds of AI products and services is an unavoidable step, and it has been recognized as such by international stakeholders.
“Providing citizens with the opportunity to share hands-on AI knowledge and to voice the expectations with respect to the introduction of different kinds of AI products and services is an unavoidable step, and it has been recognized as such by international stakeholders, even if this dialogue has mainly been understood from the perspective of preventing a worsening of the working conditions in”
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- Authors
- Krämer, C., & Cazes, S.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Venue
- OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
- Published
- 2022-10-03
- ISSN
- 1815-199X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4298152152
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 3
- Type
- report
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- OECD social employment and migration working papers (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
- Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Legal and Labor Studies
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, social dialogue, social partners, labour market transitions, technological change, inclusive labour market, labor relations, artificial intelligence adoption, policy interventions
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