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Job Guarantees Return Before the Forecasts Become Facts
· New York time
The possibility of large-scale AI unemployment is renewing interest in a job guarantee, an older proposal for publicly backed access to employment. The debate concerns how society might respond if technological disruption produces a severe labor-market crisis. It is not an announcement that such a program has been enacted or that mass AI unemployment is already established. The discussion fits a longstanding American economic argument about which ideas become available when a crisis changes political possibilities. Milton Friedman's observation that crises can move once-marginal ideas into the mainstream supplies part of that framing. The administrative irony is considerable: a technology promoted for doing work without people may revive proposals for ensuring people have work. The future remains uncertain, but the policy shelf is being dusted.
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