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Prosperity
for All
in the age of AI

We organize workers across industries upended by rapid technological change to build collective power and win shared prosperity.

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Diverse workers united for just transitions

Our mission is to center humans in the future of work

Advocacy & Policy

We organize to advance "Human-First" AI practices to empower workers' voices in decision-making, strengthen our social safety net, and fight for bold policies that ensure equitable access to quality jobs, and a dignified future of shared prosperity.

Community Support

As a tech cooperative, we are worker-owners who build this platform democratically, and provide resources to help laid off and early career workers navigate a changing job landscape with community job search tools, layoff crisis support, skill sharing, civic tech projects, and mutual aid.

Members of What We Will organizing together

Who We Are

What We Will is a worker center for workers across sectors impacted by rapid technological change. We started in response to mass layoffs in 2025–2026, as part of the Tech Workers Coalition, a grassroots labor organization with local chapters across U.S. and Europe.

We believe collective power — not individual resilience alone — is necessary to navigate technological change. When workers organize together across sectors, we can build support systems, win policy protections, and shape the future of work.

What We Do

Our Core Programs

We organize workers displaced by AI through immediate crisis support, career transition resources, and collective action—building power from the ground up.

Mutual Aid

We are building a culture of sharing and reciprocity between members. The framework is solidarity, not charity. In a moment of uncertainty, white collar workers historically excluded from traditional union representation are recognizing our shared strength as workers.

The charity-based model assumes a one-directional flow of resources, but we are also powerful resources for one another. Mutual aid is a system of giving and receiving that builds meaningful relationships and democratic practice. Your participation and unique contributions are what makes this project valuable for everyone. We highlight the skills of experienced workers while striving to provide mentorship to entry-level workers, especially those from diverse backgrounds and nontraditional training paths.

Our Future

“Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will.” — Ira Steward (1863)

Machinists and Blacksmiths Union labor leader who fought for the eight-hour work day

The first industrial revolution gave birth to movements that secured the labor laws and protections we know today. A five-day work week, social security, abolition of child labor—these rights were not freely given. They were fought for and won by workers who organized, went on strike, marched, and refused to accept the way things were.

The pace of AI development poses a similar scale of economic change into a fraction of the time — change whose consequences are still contested and unevenly distributed. Some workers face displacement; others face surveillance, eroded autonomy, or layoffs driven more by investor pressure than productivity.

But every disruption is also an opening for building better. The workers in the New Deal era didn't just survive industrialization; they reimagined work itself.

What can we imagine — and build together — for the future of work?

Workers with signs in industrial revolution era illustration

In the Press

Select media coverage of our layoff support and basic income programs for workers impacted by AI-driven layoffs.

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Your donation helps us organize workers, grow mutual aid, and build a future where the gains of AI are shared by everyone.

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