How to Prepare for the Future of Employment in an AI Economy—Gina Raimondo
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Can America win the AI race without hollowing out its own workforce? Not on the current path—Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warns the U.S. is "on track to win the AI race — and hollow itself out in the process," and calls AI a "100-year technology" that needs a 100-year worker strategy. But even her hopeful plan doesn't address what happens if AI permanently eliminates more jobs than any retraining program can replace. AI Economy: Raimondo’s Optimistic Warning Gina Raimondo’s TED2026 talk, A plan to stop AI from automating our decline, argues that the United States is "on track to win the AI race — and hollow itself out in the process." Her core insight is not that AI is inherently bad, but that deploying powerful technology without a serious strategy…
