Comment by Andrea Dehlendorf

Many AI staff told me that they are increasingly ready to act to prevent catastrophic risks. [...] Lab staff can build vehicles designed for their own context and this moment, using the rights, laws, and power that labor organizing has won. [...] It’s fine if those [employee] interests coincide with an interest in public safety. [...] A labor organization that you win—either by a majority vote or management voluntarily recognizing a majority petition—is the strongest vehicle to lock in enforceable rights. If you win a recognized union, the mandatory negotiating topics (called collective bargaining) your employer will be required to engage in are limited to working conditions. However, [...] permissible subjects of bargaining include topics that impact the outside world, as long as they can tie to working conditions, meaning you can include them.