May Day in the age of AI: The new war on workers

International Workers' Day is celebrated on May 1 in many countries, honouring workers' rights and the history of the labour movement. However, the US and Canada celebrate Labour Day in September, instead. The origins of May Day lie in the US, where mass strikes for an eight-hour workday broke out in 1886, met with deadly police repression. Workers' rights are now threatened by artificial intelligence, with companies like Amazon planning to replace jobs with robots.