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Pete Buttigieg: “We realized that if we didn't set up a new social contract…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 15:29

And so we learned the lessons of the manufacturing job loss that happened when I was a little kid. And we learned the lessons from the social media problems that developed when you were a little kid. And We realized that if we didn't set up a new social contract in the face of AI, we'd see millions of people displaced. with no way to find belonging. And we'd see this technology lead to even more extreme concentration of wealth and power than what we were already facing back then in the 2000 and twenties. (15:29–15:36)

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Asserts the potential displacement of millions due to AI without a new social contract.

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