challenges. business leaders are excited that artificial intelligence could mean more innovation, better customer service, more productivity and therefore more profit. they are less keen to talk about what it might do to staff numbers, workers rights, which could change faster than people can retrain, or new rules of engagement can be written. ai is already influencing our lives, and unions say the uk is falling behind when it comes to protecting workers from al making life changing decisions on hiring, firing and working conditions and they want new safeguards. irate working conditions and they want new safeuuards. ~ ., ., . . , ~ safeguards. we do not have any ai secific safeguards. we do not have any ai specific legislation, safeguards. we do not have any ai specific legislation, and specific legislation, and increasingly, that means we are international outliers. workers have to fail international outliers. workers have to fell back international outliers. workers have to