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Third Way offers game plan for AI job disruption
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The center-left think tank Third Way is laying out a roadmap for how Washington can respond to potential job disruption from AI in the face of wide-ranging predictions about the technology’s impact.
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AI leaders have offered dramatically different takes on what the technology means for the future of work.
While Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned last year that AI could wipe out up to half of entry-level white-collar jobs, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued last week that “jobs doomerism is likely long-term wrong.”
“In other words: no one really knows,” Third Way wrote in a memo shared first with The Hill on Thursday.
“But history offers a guide,” it continued. “When transformative technologies arrive—whether electricity, computers, or the internet—the biggest economic challenge is not permanent job loss. It is disruption.”
The think tank argued that the U.S. needs to update its education and workforce systems for the AI era, bringing AI literacy to schools and making apprenticeships more common.
Third Way also called for updating the nation’s “leaky safety net” by upgrading unemployment insurance and establishing federal wage insurance — temporary payments for workers who have to take lower paying jobs as a result of AI displacement.
“Even world-class education and training cannot prevent the downsides of disruption,” the memo added. “Millions of workers could still face layoffs as industries reorganize around AI, but America’s safety net was not designed for this kind of rapid technological change. It must be modernized.”
To finance these policies, the think tank argued for tax changes that would ensure that “those at the very top who stand to get exorbitantly rich off the technology pay for it.”
It suggested that investment income be taxed more like labor income and called for an end to a tax provision allowing wealthy investors to pass on gains to their heirs without paying taxes on those gains.
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Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Dave Min (D-Calif.) on Thursday sent letters to 17 people who received pardons or commutations from President Trump, asking whether the president granted them leniency under “pay-for-play” circumstances. The lawmakers said the individuals got Trump’s clemency “under suspicious circumstances,” according to a list of recipients released by Min’s office. Some who received pardons donated …
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One of the Pentagon’s top technology leaders ruled out any reconciliation with Anthropic, despite the White House softening its own tone on the AI company. “Never again will we be single-threaded with any one model,” Emil Michael, under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said Thursday in a fireside chat at the AI+ Expo in Washington. “We were singled-threaded with Anthropic,” he …
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said Wednesday that the Trump administration is “not in the business of picking winners and losers” on AI, as officials grapple with how to safely roll out more advanced models. “This administration has one goal; ensure the best and safest tech is deployed rapidly to defeat any and all threats,” Wiles wrote in a post on social platform X. “We appreciate the effort being made …
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has signed a deal to provide computing capability for Anthropic as the demand ramps up for the artificial intelligence firm’s products. In an announcement Wednesday, the companies said Musk’s firm will allow Anthropic to use all of the compute power through its Colossus 1 data center, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The computing resources will improve capacity for users of Anthropic’s Claude …
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- Musk's lawsuit puts OpenAI's safety record under the microscope (TechCrunch)
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