From the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip to Hollywood’s writing rooms, workers are turning to their unions to seek protections against the risks that emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence may pose to their jobs.

The monthslong strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA were perhaps the most visible efforts to push back on the use of AI in the workspace over the past 12 months. But similar efforts to obtain assurances from employers also took place in industries ranging from hospitality to journalism.