Building a Civilian Labor Corps: Bracing for the AI Job Apocalypse.
Non-Negotiable #2.
Today we’re tackling our second non-negotiable pillar of establishing a Civilian Labor Corps, and the timing couldn’t be more critical. You may have picked up on chatter in the wind about the impending job apocalypse at the hands of artificial intelligence (AI). I’m here to tell you that this is real. It is coming faster and more furiously than you realize, and we are wholly unprepared. This episode breaks down the speed and totality of what’s coming in the AI revolution and speaks to how prominent economists from history through today would manage the impending employment crisis.
Show Notes
Clips
Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:15:48 | Scary Movie: But Wait... There's More!
- 00:16:53 | Terminator 2: Skynet
Resources
- Goldman Sachs: What to expect from AI in 2025: hybrid workers, robotics, expert models
- Levy Institute: Working Paper No. 542 Keynes’s Approach to Full Employment: Aggregate or Targeted Demand?
- Fisher Phillips: U.S. House Delivers Sweeping AI Report: 10 Biggest Takeaways for Employers
- 118th Congress: Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence
- Congressional Budget Office: Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Effects on the Economy and the Federal Budget
- Congressional Research Service: The Macroeconomic Effects of Artificial Intelligence
- Convin: Is AI a Threat to the BPO Industry? AI in BPO Industry Explained
UNFTR Episode Resources
- Housing First: Non-Negotiable #1.
- The U.S. Economy: Have we reached a boiling point?
- Has “Creative Destruction” Reached Silicon Valley? The Capitalism Trap.
- Modern Monetary Theory. Can we afford it? Yes. Yes, we can.
- F*ck Milton Friedman. The Chicago school of economics.
Book Love
- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Good Economics for Hard Times
- Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano
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