The Guardian has launched Reworked, a reporting series examining how widespread anxiety over AI's impact on employment is galvanising a new workers' movement in the US. Researchers and labour advocates argue that as both blue-collar and white-collar workers face similar threats from algorithmic management and automation, traditional class divisions are dissolving, creating conditions for broader collective action. With a 2025 Pew survey showing 64% of Americans believe AI will reduce jobs over the next 20 years, experts warn that tech leaders are deliberately mystifying AI's capabilities to disempower workers and policymakers — but stress the technology's direction remains a choice, not a foregone conclusion.

How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers' movement - The Guardian