Expert opinions on Impact On Labor

AI will not kill jobs. AI will unbundle jobs. Your job is essentially a bundle of tasks. What AI will do is unbundle those tasks.

We appear to be approaching the most significant reorganization of work in generations. This transition could create new opportunities, but it could also come with some costs.

County workers are too important to functional government to be replaced by AI for the sake of claimed efficiency.

Faced with this, Marxism proposes that tax collection should fall directly on the massive profits of big tech capital, rather than taxing consumption or the income of working families.

Raising the cost of all those innovation- and productivity-enhancing uses of computing would unequivocally harm American productivity, innovation, and global competitiveness. Knowingly imposing these costs on ourselves because of concerns about certa...

However a universal basic income policy is financed, the time has come to think seriously about its implementation.

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 ...

The new AI prophets of doom suffer from a failure of imagination. They simply cannot envision what work the future will bring, so they conclude it will bring none. In the real world, Washington would stack a UBI atop existing programs, adding trillio...

It will be that multi-trillion-dollar A.I. companies keep doing exactly what they're doing under the worst possible incentives to race as fast as possible to replace all human labor in the economy. I think something that's important to get, like why ...

The uneven adoption of AI risks widening economic disparities—both within labour markets and between regions.

We’re the first organization in the country that’s told our staff we’re not going to lay anyone off because of AI. We believe that AI should be used to help people. It should be human-centered, and it really should be a tool rather than a replacement...

Eventually, we need some form of universal basic income for everybody while they work and once they retire.

The answer to that fear is to make job loss less scary by building a new unemployment program.

If artificial general intelligence (AGI) and quantum computing mature, they could break today’s cryptography and concentrate informational and economic power even more in a small club of states and firms.

This creates what we call the “Abundance Flywheel”: commit compute to a hard problem, focus R&D until it clears, watch the domain collapse from artisanal craft to industrial utility, capture the surplus, and reinvest it into the next target. Repeat u...

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.

It is often suggested that the advent of powerful AI will create abundance and that it can thereby contribute to securing social harmony. This paper draws on Hirsch’s study of different kinds of limits to growth to show that this is false.

This article proposes a rights-based governance architecture that binds AI deployment to worker voice, enforceable human rights due diligence, and universal social-protection floors.