AI, Job Displacement, and Support for Workers

Zhuorui Yang

doi:10.54097/2xhrnp65

Authors

Zhuorui Yang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/2xhrnp65

Keywords:

AI, automation, executive order, legislation, unions, collective bargaining.

Abstract

AI develops at an extraordinary pace and would be capable of outrace human worker in a wide variety of fields. Those affected by this are not limited to workers who hold middle class jobs. If fact, high-salaried professionals would also be impacted by AI considerably despite their education and training. This prompted policymakers to formulate relevant policies to support the affected workers. In the United States, the federal government and some state governments have passed acts to support workers, while union organizations have protected their members through self-regulation and collective bargaining, among other means. What some unions have achieved so far with collective bargaining could serve as a paradigm for safeguarding workers against the impacts of AI.

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