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Josh Hawley: “Nearly one in five American workers now believes that…”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

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AI and America's Moral Covenant with Senator Josh Hawley

Published | Video Starts at 18:03

And let me just suggest three lines of effort, three fronts on which we must act and act soon. First is labor. The numbers tell this story plainly enough. The Economist reported recently, maybe you read it, that Nearly one in five American workers now believes that artificial intelligence or automation is likely to replace him. Now that's not just perception. It is empirically verifiable. The St. Louis Federal Reserve bank has studied the relationship between AI exposure and job loss and warned recently we may be witnessing the early stages of AI driven job displacement. (18:03–18:11)

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