No more hiding the impact of AI: The US government is looking to force companies to report how many folks have been fired because of artificial intelligence

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A bipartisan bill might just offer a step in the right direction for workers' rights in the age of AI, calling for further investigation "regarding artificial intelligence-related job impacts" (via The Verge). The "AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act" will require both publicly-traded firms and government organisations to report to the Department of Labor how many staff they fired due to AI automation. The act will also require companies to keep tabs on how many people they hire or retrain due to AI integration.

Anxiety about what AI means for the workforce is widespread. For instance, last month, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, which represents 15 million workers and 63 unions, produced a report calling for a “worker-centered technological future."

The most recent bill was introduced by Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican Senator Josh Hawley. Senator Warner said, "Good policy starts with good data. This bipartisan legislation will finally give us a clear picture of AI’s impact on the workforce — what jobs are being eliminated, which workers are being retrained, and where new opportunities are emerging."

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For instance, while Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said back in August that replacing entry-level jobs with AI 'the dumbest thing [he'd] ever heard,' more recent organisational changes have seen the wider company lay off 14,000 corporate roles. This feels especially stark, as many major AI players have become increasingly reliant on the server power of AWS—just this week, OpenAI and Amazon struck a $38 billion deal.

With such eye-watering amounts of money being thrown around in the name of compute power, it's hard not to feel like human workers are being left out in the cold. But who knows—maybe this latest act demonstrates a recommitment to workers' rights at some level within the US government, and maybe, just maybe, they can be brought in from the cold.

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Jess Kinghorn
Jess Kinghorn
Hardware Writer

Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.

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