Representative Mary Norton, a key champion of the bill, argued prior to passage that “this bill will eventually decrease unemployment if the employers of the coun- try will face the issue in a practical manner and cooperate by spreading their work over a greater number.”9 While the underlying causes of labor disruptions in the 1930s and with the adoption of AI are quite different, the historical e. [...] Third, the Center for American Progress has previously advocated for a regionally- focused jobs guarantee that would meet some of our nation’s most pressing eco- nomic and social needs and serve as an employer of last resort in the hardest-hit areas.14 In order to be responsive to the potential disruptions of AI, the time to start advancing such a policy is now. [...] Already, unions representing Hollywood writers and actors are on the front lines of fighting to ensure that studio executives cannot deploy AI tools in ways that infringe on workers’ intellectual property or steal their creative work.18 Reforms like the Protecting the Right to Organize Act will ensure that more working people have the power to organize and bargain for a fair share of the upside be. [...] These AI contract workers join legions of Center for American Progress Patrick Gaspard’s Statement for the Senate AI Insight Forum on Workforce 5 outsourced trust and safety contractors for social media companies who are forced to look at the worst content on the internet for low wages and with few resources for the trauma that inflicts on them. [...] Earlier this year, the company committed to remaining neutral in organizing drives at two video gaming subsidiaries and has announced that it is “committed to creative and collaborative approaches with unions.” It is essential that we ensure that the outsourced contractors who test the trust and safety of the AI systems of the future and the social media companies of today have real protections th.
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