Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Chairman Greg Casar (D-TX) called on his fellow lawmakers to levy a tax on companies that execute “AI-driven layoffs,” arguing that the tax revenue should fund a jobs program similar to the one that President Franklin D. Roosevelt spearheaded during the Great Depression.
Citing AI entrepreneur and researcher Dario Amodei’s prediction that U.S. unemployment levels will rise to Great Depression levels within the next five years and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s opinion that humans will not be needed “for most things” in 10 years, Casar wrote in the American Prospect that “most people involved in…
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