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Sorry we spent your wages on data centers, but call us when you're AI-ready
AI-POCALYPSE Several leading US AI companies joined with former US government officials on Thursday to form a bipartisan coalition focused on helping to prepare workers for the AI tsunami, even as many companies seem to be in a race to see who can replace human workers the fastest.Founded by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, RAISE US aims to "design and pilot new corporate incentives to retrain and redeploy workers, new approaches to support people through job transitions, and new training models tied to changing employer demand."The announcement talks up employer incentives but makes no mention of worker rights. It does, however, tease the possibility of wage insurance and career navigation "so changing jobs no longer means financial ruin."
