How to Prepare for the Future of Employment in an AI Economy—Gina Raimondo

How to Prepare for the Future of Employment in an AI Economy—Gina Raimondo

Brookings AI Job Losses, Does AI Retraining Actually Work, Employer Leverage and Worker Bargaining Power, How to Prepare for the Future of Employment in an AI Economy—Gina Raimondo, Will AI Eliminate My Job
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…
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Jobs AI is Likely to Change—Not Simply Replace

Jobs AI is Likely to Change—Not Simply Replace

Brookings AI Job Losses, Employer Leverage and Worker Bargaining Power, Government Precedents Behind Alien Encounter Response, Human Categorization, Jobs AI is Likely to Change, Will AI Eliminate My Job
Every AI-and-jobs headline seems to reach for the same verb: replace. But the actual labor-market data tells a messier story. Most jobs aren't being deleted outright—they're being taken apart and reassembled, with a smaller human core and a much bigger AI shell around it. The real question isn't just which job categories survive. It's what happens to the humans still doing them once the employer holds nearly all the leverage in the negotiation. What Jobs Are Actually Disappearing When AI Automates Work? Some categories genuinely are shrinking. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects 19 million net new jobs by 2030 against roughly 9 million lost—but broken out by cause, AI and information processing alone is expected to create about 11 million jobs while displacing about 9…
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