Artificial intelligence and jobs
How artificial intelligence and automation change the number and kinds of jobs, what protections and retraining workers whose work they take over get, and whether AI's profits are taxed or shared with the public.
What they call for
DemocratsRepublicans21 new members addressed this issue (with these filters). Many call for more than one thing.
Protect workers' jobs from being replaced by AI10Retrain and prepare workers for jobs changed by AI6Share AI's gains with working people and the public6Tax the companies that profit from AI4Give workers and unions a voice in how AI is used3Encourage AI development to create good-paying jobs2Require notice before layoffs caused by AI2Expand unemployment and wage insurance for workers AI displaces2Limit AI surveillance and automated decisions about workers1
Protect workers' jobs from being replaced by AI
10 members“I am running on an integrated plan: restore hundreds of millions of tax dollars stripped from Nevada by Elon Musk and DOGE; develop strong regulations to prevent massive job layoffs due to AI; and build workforce housing that everyday Nevadans can afford.”View on their website ↗
“We should do everything we can to get the benefits of AI – from new and faster cures for disease to less time wasted – without massive lay-offs, letting ourselves be helpless in the face of algorithms that addict our kids to AI-created content that makes it hard to know truth from lies, or a data center buildout that drives up electricity costs for families. We need guardrails. And we need to protect workers.”View on their website ↗
“Artificial Intelligence has already begun to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, just like electricity did a century ago. We can't afford to let the development of this technology continue without the input of everyday Americans. AI already touches healthcare, education, jobs, and even justice. If we democratize it and ensure its development is transparent, equitable, and publicly accountable, we can unlock its potential to solve massive problems. That means open access research, worker protections against automation, and strong oversight to prevent discrimination, exploitation, and surveillance. AI is built on generations of human knowledge and creativity. It’s only right that it should be developed to serve the public good.”View on their website ↗
“We need an economy where every full-time job supports a full life, whether it’s in food services or investment banking. Where our kids can eventually afford to move out of the house and start a life of their own. Where a single parent’s take home pay is more than enough. And where automation technologies give us more time with our family, not fewer job opportunities.”View on their website ↗
“Protect our jobs from being taken by AI, and invest in retraining and apprenticeship programs to help the next generation get a leg-up in the workforce.”View on their website ↗
“Finally, with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, we must prioritize working people and their employment. AI groups should work hand in hand with labor leaders to ensure the work force and our economy handles AI integration to the benefit of working class Americans, not just corporations and billionaires.”View on their website ↗
“And I believe we need strong protections to make sure AI does not displace workers or leave working people worse off.”View on their website ↗
“Push for more guardrails and regulation of artificial intelligence to ensure a balance between the need to invest in new technologies with the need to protect American jobs.”View on their website ↗
“Push for tough AI regulation, so its rapid expansion doesn't increase energy bills, degrade the environment or lay off millions of workers”View on their website ↗
“Stop data center expansion without safeguards. Claire will fight to put a moratorium on AI data center expansion. Claire will cosponsor the proposed bill from Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez that would place a moratorium on new data center development contingent on several safeguards being in place, including worker protections related to job displacement, effects on energy prices, and climate impacts.”View on their website ↗
“Protecting Workers: Technology should be a tool for workers, not a threat of replacement. For workers across all industries, Randy will ensure large AI companies pay their fair share in taxes and will fight to protect working people’s job security against the threat of replacement by AI.”View on their website ↗
Retrain and prepare workers for jobs changed by AI
6 members“I'll also prioritize policies that keep people at the center of this technology: funding for workers navigating an AI-driven job market, oversight to catch and correct bias in AI systems, and firm limits on how AI is deployed in sensitive areas like healthcare and social media, particularly involving kids.”View on their website ↗
“She will be a leader in Congress in advancing safety standards and preparing the workforce for its disruption to our economy.”View on their website ↗
“Investing in community colleges and job retraining programs to prepare workers for a changing job market.”View on their website ↗
“I will be a proud voice for policies that put all Americans on a path to prosperity, including preparing Americans for jobs in the 21st Century amidst the rise of AI, advocating for universal pre-K, reinstating reproductive rights, fighting inflation and ensuring Americans’ hard earned dollars go further.”View on their website ↗
“We should know if massive layoffs or displacements are happening because of AI and corporations should have to give notice before replacing employees with AI. If this replacement happens, big tech and the companies that profit should be required to pay into a fund that helps retrain workers who lose their jobs to AI so workers don’t lose their livelihoods as our economy transitions into the AI age.”View on their website ↗
“Oliver will fight in Washington to reinvest in job training, especially in high-paying technical fields that can’t easily be taken away by AI, and to strengthen support for entrepreneurs and small business owners.”View on their website ↗
“Protect our jobs from being taken by AI, and invest in retraining and apprenticeship programs to help the next generation get a leg-up in the workforce.”View on their website ↗
Share AI's gains with working people and the public
6 members“Responsible Artificial Intelligence Policy: Artificial Intelligence continues to upend our economy, our education system, and our world. If responsibly developed, AI has enormous potential to promote the common good and usher in a new era of American technological leadership. At the same time, it presents severe challenges on many fronts, from job loss to wealth concentration to disinformation to energy and water use to national security. Congress must develop a policy framework that promotes and champions America’s AI leadership and encourages responsible AI development to create good-paying jobs, protect the environment, keep kids safe, and ensure that AI promotes prosperity for the working class, not just the wealthy few.”View on their website ↗
“As a Member of Congress, my job will be to make sure AI innovation means more money in your pocket, not less.”View on their website ↗
“We also need to make sure that we guard against the risks that AI will pose to our national security, and that our tax code is fair so that the AI boom doesn’t just supercharge wealth concentration at the top, but instead helps us make new investments in people, in jobs, in infrastructure, in education, and in communities.”View on their website ↗
“We need an economy where every full-time job supports a full life, whether it’s in food services or investment banking. Where our kids can eventually afford to move out of the house and start a life of their own. Where a single parent’s take home pay is more than enough. And where automation technologies give us more time with our family, not fewer job opportunities.”View on their website ↗
“Finally, with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, we must prioritize working people and their employment. AI groups should work hand in hand with labor leaders to ensure the work force and our economy handles AI integration to the benefit of working class Americans, not just corporations and billionaires.”View on their website ↗
“As your representative in Congress, Claire will fight to hold major technology corporations accountable, protect our workforce from the harms of AI, and ensure that new technologies benefit communities, not just corporate executives.”View on their website ↗
“Reclaiming the economic gains of automation for workers by supporting a 32-hour work week with no reduction in pay.”View on their website ↗
“Use tax policy to ensure broad distribution of AI’s benefits.”View on their website ↗
“To fund programs designed to address labor displacement, Scott will push to tax companies benefiting from AI, ensuring they pay their fair share and share the gains from AI broadly.”View on their website ↗
Tax the companies that profit from AI
4 members“We also need to make sure that we guard against the risks that AI will pose to our national security, and that our tax code is fair so that the AI boom doesn’t just supercharge wealth concentration at the top, but instead helps us make new investments in people, in jobs, in infrastructure, in education, and in communities.”View on their website ↗
“We should know if massive layoffs or displacements are happening because of AI and corporations should have to give notice before replacing employees with AI. If this replacement happens, big tech and the companies that profit should be required to pay into a fund that helps retrain workers who lose their jobs to AI so workers don’t lose their livelihoods as our economy transitions into the AI age.”View on their website ↗
“Protecting Workers: Technology should be a tool for workers, not a threat of replacement. For workers across all industries, Randy will ensure large AI companies pay their fair share in taxes and will fight to protect working people’s job security against the threat of replacement by AI.”View on their website ↗
“To fund programs designed to address labor displacement, Scott will push to tax companies benefiting from AI, ensuring they pay their fair share and share the gains from AI broadly.”View on their website ↗
“Critically, that means going beyond taxing the AI labs themselves to taxing other companies using AI to capture massive profits. For example, if pharmaceutical companies generate unprecedented profits by using AI to create scores of new drugs, they should be subject to an AI or robot tax.”View on their website ↗
Give workers and unions a voice in how AI is used
3 members“Ensure that the voices and interests of workers and organized labor are prioritized in the AI policy debate.”View on their website ↗
“Finally, with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, we must prioritize working people and their employment. AI groups should work hand in hand with labor leaders to ensure the work force and our economy handles AI integration to the benefit of working class Americans, not just corporations and billionaires.”View on their website ↗
“Mass education programs across industries and regions that will bring workers together to discuss the local impacts of AI, build solidarity, and equip them with tools to organize.”View on their website ↗
Encourage AI development to create good-paying jobs
2 members“Encourage responsible AI adoption across industries to improve efficiency and create good-paying jobs”View on their website ↗
“Responsible Artificial Intelligence Policy: Artificial Intelligence continues to upend our economy, our education system, and our world. If responsibly developed, AI has enormous potential to promote the common good and usher in a new era of American technological leadership. At the same time, it presents severe challenges on many fronts, from job loss to wealth concentration to disinformation to energy and water use to national security. Congress must develop a policy framework that promotes and champions America’s AI leadership and encourages responsible AI development to create good-paying jobs, protect the environment, keep kids safe, and ensure that AI promotes prosperity for the working class, not just the wealthy few.”View on their website ↗
Require notice before layoffs caused by AI
2 members“We should know if massive layoffs or displacements are happening because of AI and corporations should have to give notice before replacing employees with AI. If this replacement happens, big tech and the companies that profit should be required to pay into a fund that helps retrain workers who lose their jobs to AI so workers don’t lose their livelihoods as our economy transitions into the AI age.”View on their website ↗
“Hold AI Companies Accountable: Families deserve strong protections, real accountability, and a fair shot. That's why I support policies that ensure AI companies are not above the law. That includes requiring large AI firms to report critical safety incidents in a timely manner, requiring independent safety reviews before major model releases, implementing protections for whistleblowers, holding AI firms that lie to the government about safety practices or infringe on privacy rights accountable, and requiring notice before AI-driven layoffs at large employers.”View on their website ↗
Expand unemployment and wage insurance for workers AI displaces
2 members“Spearhead a national wage insurance program to ease tech-driven job displacement.”View on their website ↗
“Micah has introduced legislation to establish a first-in-the-nation wage insurance program in New York State to ease tech-driven job displacement.”View on their website ↗
“Rapidly expand unemployment benefits to meet the rising wave of AI job displacement.”View on their website ↗
“The United States must move with all possible haste to shore up and expand unemployment insurance and other key social safety net planks—not as a complete solution, but as a no-risk emergency step to ensure people’s basic needs are met if larger and larger numbers of people face job displacement from AI.”View on their website ↗
Limit AI surveillance and automated decisions about workers
1 member“Defend workers from automated surveillance through the Stop Spying Bosses Act, and protect against AI-related hiring discrimination with the No Robot Bosses Act.”View on their website ↗
Raised the issue without a specific call
1 member“Deepfake videos are often deceptive attempts to mislead constituents, undermine elections, cheat consumers, and harass children and adults with nonconsensual sexual content churned out by these AI companies with little to no recourse. The concerns about AI taking jobs are real, too, and we have to find ways to balance the real-world use of AI with the outright harm it causes to working families and individuals.”View on their website ↗
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