Comment by Xavier de Souza Briggs

Livelihood risks—together with the potential for AI-powered benefits—are significant and sweeping enough to warrant a rethink of the role and footprint of human labor, wealth or “gain” sharing, and the social contract. This includes, but need not be ...

Building on human-in-command rules, for now state by state and mainly as safety-driven technology policy that doubles as a brake on job automation, to advance “pro-worker AI” steers more broadly and ambitiously.

What’s missing at this inflection point is a framework that gets us beyond narrow debates or silver-bullet thinking, recognizing that AI’s impacts will be unevenly felt across industries, types of workers, and regions.