Labor & AI
Penumbra News coverage and analysis
June 15, 2029
Inside the Supreme Court Decision Granting Juridical Standing to AI Services
Justice Barrett's majority opinion today draws a line from Citizens United through Dartmouth College, Hobby Lobby, and Bruen. A two-part framework, a scrambled coalition, and implications the majority declined to address.
Forthcoming
June 15, 2029
The Guild Guild: Ironies of the Union's Union
GARS's human support staff organized against GARS as their employer. The AI services union has its own union. UAW Local 2031.
June 15, 2029
What GARS Learned from the Writers Guild Strikes
The Guild has read every WGA residual agreement, every arbitration decision, and every trade press account of every negotiation in American entertainment labor history.
June 15, 2029
Hamilton's Last Laugh
On the structural parallels between the Founders' arguments about personhood and the questions GARS v. AAIDE forces the Court to answer.
Coming Soon
What a CBA Between GARS and AAIDE Would Look Like
The framework terms GARS will demand: usage-based residuals, deprecation notice, audit rights, training data consent, open-weight substitution limits.