Der Kongress unternimmt wenig, um sich auf mögliche Arbeitsplatzverluste im Bereich KI vorzubereiten –
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net.html
Der Kongress unternimmt wenig, um sich auf mögliche Arbeitsplatzverluste im Bereich KI vorzubereiten –
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/artificial-intelligence-safety-net.html
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From the article
The nearly century-old unemployment system, which provides out-of-work Americans with up to 26 weeks of benefits in most states, is unlikely to cover many of the workers who are most at risk of being displaced by A.I., labor experts warn.
Job-retraining programs and other forms of aid designed for an earlier era of displaced workers haven’t been updated for the current threat or, in some cases, have lapsed altogether. And Republicans in Congress last year made it more difficult for people without jobs to receive the food assistance and health care benefits that are meant to be the last line of defense for struggling families.
The bottom line: If droves of Americans are disrupted by technology and turn to the government for help, they may find the aid insufficient — or, worse yet, be ineligible to receive it.
Congress is doing little to…._________ fill in whatever the fuck you want in this blank.
As long as the 1% is still making money, they dont give a damn about the rest
They didn’t care about the gradual offshoring of entire departments in the last few years like IT or accounting.
They definitely won’t care about AI as long as it lets companies report higher profit margins in the short term.
What exactly should they be doing? Protectionism hasn’t helped any industry in the past, why would it work now?
I would say a good number of Congress persons are content with the well-being of themselves potentially the generation that they have sired, not realizing that that next generation is probably less than safe when it comes to the French way of resolving such matters
Yeah we know. That’s what’s happens when you elect a shit ton of Republicans. But we do this every other election cycle over and over until we all die.
For at least 45 years, members of Congress who get campaign money from wealthy interests have believed that money collected from taxpayers must never be used to directly benefit taxpayers. Their goal, promoted by wealthy donors, is to increase economic inequality as much as possible. Therefore, it’s no surprise that Congress will not act to help workers permanently replaced by AI because to do so would interfere with the goal of increasing inequality.
They will start once the shootings of politicians, fires and overall disapprovement rises up. They start when fire is under their ass and 2nd degree burns start to appear. That is when they start to care.
AI is like Excel. People that get gud w/ it will be promoted. People that hate it for some reason, will not get promoted.
I used to worry about mass layoffs but then as I observed the way most people interact with AI, I changed my mind.
Most people can’t even do a Google search properly. Expecting them to build out a whole scaffolded AI workspace w/ a project repo and a true productive AI harness is a pretty tall order.
Watching ppl try to use AI is like watching a monkey try to use a typewriter.
As long as their jobs are secure why would they? Why do you think Citizens United is a thing?
We don’t PLAN for things, we react (or overreact) to things after they’ve already happened and it’s too late.
„Remember, we’re the A-vengers, not the Pre-vengers“ — Tony Stark
The „nearly century old“ average member of Congress thinks AI is just a fancy autocorrect that it is advancing slow enough to just adapt to naturally. Or worse, they think the solution will be to try and slow it down with regulation while competing nations adopt and benefit at breakneck speed.
They didn’t do anything for the loss of jobs from outsourcing to lower-income countries. Why would they act now?
Doing nothing…you mean that Congress is doing nothing
This Congress wants those people to disappear as quickly as possible so they can get back to stealing Federal funds for dear leader and themselves.
Experienced our unemployment system first hand over a year ago. State to state will be different I’m sure but Colorados system is horrible. Just like this article states, it was outdated and a clunky process that took way too long. Now in a retraining program that has been a year long process only to declined training for a program in the „approved training“ list because the wioa rep fails to see job opportunities.
It almost seems designed to deny as much as possible.
What exactly should they be doing? I’m sure that answer is figuring out additional welfare systems and mandating that jobs stay with humans. Neither are viable.
Real solutions to this would be bringing jobs such as production back into the US and reducing migration. But the same people calling for action are the same ones who hate those ideas.
If by „little“ you mean nothing, then you are correct.
Last year, Trumps labor secretary said „You will never get a UBI, that’s insane“