NYSNA Joins Global Unions to Confront AI

This past weekend, NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, BSN, RN, CCRN, First Vice President Judith Cutchin, DNP, RN, and Treasurer Margaret Franks, BSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC attended the AI and the Future of Work conference alongside National Nurses United. Over the course of the weekend in Ithaca, our leaders listened to presentations on the impact of AI on workers and workers' rights and had the opportunity to brainstorm potential solutions and paths forward with union siblings from across the world. 

On Saturday, President Hagans gave a presentation on the ways that AI is showing up in healthcare settings and the impact it has on nurses. In closing her presentation, President Hagans said "While we support innovation in technology that helps our patients, our patients shouldn’t be put at risk so that Wall Street billionaires can get richer from rolling out untested artificial technology in our hospitals before it has been proven safe and free from bias." 

NYSNA will continue to fight to ensure that frontline nurses have a voice in the decision-making process when it comes to implementing new technology in the work place, AI or otherwise, because when we fight, we win!