Expert opinions on Impact On Labor

Undoubtedly we’re going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of [universal basic income], some sort of lifelong mechanism as well so people can retrain.

Artificial intelligence will change how millions of Americans earn a living, and we must ensure AI catalyzes upward mobility and preserves the dignity of work.

New industries will emerge to meet infinitely unfolding consumer demand, just as our ancestors could not have fathomed the modern roles of flight attendants and software salespeople.

AI is already changing how people work, and it's bringing real risks: massive job losses, increased workplace surveillance, and weaker bargaining power for workers. We need to get ahead of it. That means investing in workforce training, strengthening...

Policymakers should not focus on slowing the development of AI through an AI compute tax; they should focus on helping workers transition to a labor force increasingly augmented by AI.

As a result, concentrated economic power in one or two countries could trigger economic and social crises elsewhere, unless the economic benefits of AI are globally shared or at least unless the same level of AI competence is available at an equitabl...

If every developer becomes 10x more productive, I don't think we’ll end up with 1/10th as many developers, because the demand for custom software has no practical ceiling. Instead, the number of people who develop software will grow massively.

We all know generative AI will destroy certain jobs and will create new jobs.

What’s changing isn’t the number of jobs, it’s what those jobs expect from people.

We believe that the state has failed the millions of poor working age adults because of its continued refusal to upgrade the R370 grant into a decent universal basic income, indexed to the Lower Bound Poverty Line at introduction.

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

We oppose New York State instituting a Universal Basic Income.

ABUNDANCE IS COMING. THE QUESTION IS WHO IT'S COMING FOR.

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

Scarcity has shifted, not disappeared: The premise of AI abundance needs sharper evidence.