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Save The Worker, Save America

Save The Worker, Save America

Michael Lind’s latest book, Hell to Pay ,’ makes the case that corporate wage suppression, welfare programs, and the dismantling of unions have left the American economy in a perilous state.

For the past decade, conservatives have been going through something of an identity crisis. What was once a movement that embraced free-market capitalism, globalism, expertise, and military dominance now champions working-class populism, nationalism, subsidiarity, and non-interventionism. What keeps both forms of conservatism on the same spectrum is their opposition to leftist ideology, commitment to law and order, and reverence for Western civilization.

Most of today’s conservatives are somewhere […]

Oren Cass on Challenges Facing the U.S. Workforce

Bill Scanlan WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. WHAT DO YOU SEE IS THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN WORK ORDERS TODAY AND IT’S JUST CHALLENGES? 00:01:30
Oren Cass IT IS INTERESTING AT THE MOMENT. ON THE ONE HAND, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AND SAY THIS MARKET LOOKS FANTASTIC VERY TIGHT. LAWYERS SAY THEY’RE … Show Full Text 00:03:28
Bill Scanlan WHY DO YOU THINK WAGES HAVE NOT GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY? 00:03:32
Oren Cass IT COMES DOWN TO THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO BUSINESSES. IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE BASIS — BASICS OF HOW […]

As AI takes greater hold, more control is needed

Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 | 2 a.m. View more of the Sun’s opinion section

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Letters to the editor – readers’ views Write a letter to the editor The conventional wisdom — don’t you love it? — holds that artificial intelligence won’t cost jobs. But it will. The evidence is mounting.I say this after doing my best to divine the thinking of the AI community on jobs in my reporting. I have made three television programs on AI and conducted one press briefing, and I have talked to experts at four universities […]

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed not to allow Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) cause a repeat of widespread job losses seen during Margaret Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

Writing for The Independent , the Labour leader insisted that AI “must work for working people” – pledging a revolution in skills and training so Britain to avoid a major spike in employment.

“We must also learn from the deindustrialisation of the 80s and tech revolution of the 90s, a time when manual and clerical jobs were being automated or sent abroad to be done in other countries,” said Sir Keir. Read: We […]

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Starmer warns that AI must ‘must work for working people’

Sir Keir Starmer (PA Wire) Sir Keir Starmer has vowed not to allow Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) cause a repeat of widespread job losses seen during Margaret Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

Writing for The Independent , the Labour leader insisted that AI “must work for working people” – pledging a revolution in skills and training so Britain to avoid a major spike in employment.

“We must also learn from the deindustrialisation of the 80s and tech revolution of the 90s, a time when manual and clerical jobs were being automated or sent abroad to be done in other countries,” […]

Automation Could Set Us Free — If We Didn’t Live Under Capitalism

Automation Could Set Us Free — If We Didn’t Live Under Capitalism

As millions more jobs are eliminated, a process that could and should benefit workers will instead be one that makes their lives more difficult and insecure. (Leon Neal / Getty Images) Last year, the Daily Wire ’s Ben Shapiro debated Tucker Carlson on the question of automation. Ventriloquizing a very familiar market-conservative argument, Shapiro asked his guest point-blank whether he would support restrictions on the use of technology in order to protect jobs. In his reply, Carlson was nothing short of incredulous. Shapiro: You talk in [your] book about technology and how it’s shifting and taking away jobs from […]

How universities can best prepare for the generative AI tech revolution

How universities can best prepare for the generative AI tech revolution

Artificial Intelligence machine learning. [Getty Images] Every major technological revolution sets in motion a concurrent revolution in work. With the development of organised agriculture thousands of years ago, foragers settled on farms. During the Industrial Revolution, steam engines drove those farmers into factories. In the late 20th century, the arrival of the personal computer swapped machines for monitors, and lathes for laptops.

Now, with the appearance of the latest wave of generative artificial intelligence (AI), humanity is about to embark on an entirely new working order.

Last year, the OECD predicted that AI would “radically transform” 1.1 billion jobs in the […]

If bosses fail to check AI’s onward march, their own jobs will soon be written out of the script

If bosses fail to check AI’s onward march, their own jobs will soon be written out of the script

Actor Gina Gershon marches with striking writers in New York City, 3 May 2023. If there’s one thing Hollywood screenwriters know how to deliver, it’s a snappy one-liner.

“Pay your writers, or we’ll spoil Succession,” read one of the placards paraded outside movie studios in Los Angeles this week, as thousands of film and television writers went on strike. “Pencils down, middle fingers up,” said another. Closer to the bone, however, was a placard reading: “Wrote ChatGPT This.” For the plot twist is that this strike isn’t just over money. The Writers Guild of America also wants to establish some […]

A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again

A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again

More than a decade ago, lawyers were singled out as an endangered occupational species, their livelihoods at risk from advances in artificial intelligence.

But the doomsayers got ahead of themselves. While clever software has taken over some of the toil of legal work — searching, reviewing and mining mountains of legal documents for nuggets of useful information — employment in the legal profession has grown faster than the American work force as a whole.

Today, a new A.I. threat looms, and lawyers may feel a bit of déjà vu. There are warnings that ChatGPT-style software, with its humanlike language fluency, could […]

AI Is About to Decimate Millions of Jobs. It’s Time for Universal Basic Income | Opinion

AI Is About to Decimate Millions of Jobs. It's Time for Universal Basic Income | Opinion

For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked in what some might call the "real economy." In the digital print production industry, I’ve worked in warehouses and neighborhoods that reflected the ill effects of modern economic policy. I’ve seen manufacturing hubs stripped of economic vitality, workers struggling to meet basic needs, and the growing gap between those with college degrees and those without.

Most of the workers I’ve met over the years were hard working and doing the best they could with the skills they had. They deserved to be dealt a fair economic hand in exchange […]