Fast Company
Anxiety over what AI will do to the labor force shows no sign of receding, amid the promise of more across nearly every sector.
As layoffs spread across industries and automation accelerates, a once-fringe idea is moving into the mainstream: how to compensate workers for the disruption AI may cause.
Even the architects of the AI boom are calling for a rethink. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says society needs “new social norms” for the AI era. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that governments and businesses must support workers displaced by technology—or risk social unrest. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has gone a step further, proposing a tech-funded “public wealth fund” that would give every citizen a stake in AI-driven prosperity.
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