The AI briefing: Robots could cause 50,000 to strike

Concerns over technology could see Las Vegas ground to a halt. The membership of the Culinary Union, which represents workers in the city's casinos, have voted to strike if a deal cannot be reached over the increasing use of technology in their workplaces as well as increases in wages and the strengthening of language around sexual harassment. On June 1 the contracts of 50,000 union workers expire, raising the possibility of the first casino worker strike in Vegas since 1984. That one lasted 67 days and cost more than $1 million a day. "We support innovations that improve jobs, but we oppose automation when it only destroys jobs," Culinary Union secretary-treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline said.