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I'm mostly hoping this somehow gets sent to a privately disgruntled frontier lab employee, but it would also be cool to expand other people's minds on the way there.

I read through Ethical AI Departures and would like to note that only a few of them have gotten extensive media coverage and none of them have actually effectively gotten the frontier labs to stop, and that collectively signed letters by employees have historically not done much either.

I read Dear God, Please Do Not Resign In Protest and wanted to point out that leftists have a mature and relatively reliable set of strategies to address the problem of how to get a lot of people to stop working in protest at the same time.

Then I did a search of LW to see if someone else brought unions up already, read What if AI safety labs unionized?, and flinched at the repeated citation of legal reasons why a union isn't the correct legal structure. So no, what you want right now isn't an official, bureaucratic union. In fact, that would probably slow things down too much.

But I've done enough work with union people to know that you don't [...]

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First published:
September 17th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/erd4NSztYMynbuTKw/you-don-t-need-a-union-to-go-on-strike

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