AI Weekly Issue #497: AI's labor war just went global

This was the week the AI-and-work conflict broke into the open simultaneously across four jurisdictions. Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs. Amazon employees gamed its internal AI ranking into uselessness. Chinese courts began enforcing a framework that bars AI-justified layoffs. A UK thinktank, with TUC backing, called for employees to get a real say over how AI is rolled out in their workplaces. None of it is coordinated. All of it is this week.