Democrats propose a robot tax on corporations replacing workers with automation after a new analysis finds 15 workforce sectors face over 50% job displacement from AI.
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AnewSenatereportwarnsthatartificialintelligencecoulddisplacenearly100millionU.S.jobswithinthenextdecade,spurringDemocratstopushfora“robottax”oncompaniesthatreplacehumanworkerswithtech.
TheanalysisproducedbyDemocraticstaffersontheSenateHealth,Education,LaborandPensions(HELP)CommitteewasdrivenbySen.BernieSanders(I-Vt).
PartlyinformedbyresponsesfromChatGPT,20majorworkforcesectorswereexamined.Itwasfoundthat15couldseemorethanhalfoftheirpositionsreplacedbyAIsystemsorrobotics.
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Thehardesthit,thereportsays,willbefastfoodandcounterworkers,withanestimated3millionjobslost,whichisabout89%ofthatworkforce.
Otherhigh-riskfieldsincludecustomerservice,freightandmaterialmovers,andexecutiveassistants,withprojectedautomationratesabove80%.
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