[Future] Building pro-worker artificial intelligence

[Jundo]

An important essay from MIT ...

In a new essay, a group of rockstar economists from MIT offers a more hopeful vision for the future of human work. One in which humans collaborate with AI to get better at existing jobs, AI creates new jobs, and human workers thrive in the age of AI. It's a vision they call "pro-worker artificial intelligence," and, while achieving it seems possible, they also argue that big policy changes need to be made in order to make it real.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/building-pro-worker-ai/

The full report is here:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260223_THP_ProWorkerAI_Paper.pdf

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Gassho, J
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[Koushi]

As someone in this space, who has been doing this work for years, I don't share an optimistic view of this. You know my disdain for capitalism in general, Jundo, and what I've experienced (and other colleagues also spread across the tech giants) is that there's more focus on profitability than productivity. "Humans and agents working together!" a phrase my company likes to throw around, is simply marketing.

THAT SAID, myself, my team, and my colleagues are all trying to push for this pro-worker stance. It'll probably cost us our own jobs in the end—but what else can we do but try? Greed is always going to be a brick wall.

Something something, beings are numberless, something something.

Gassho,
Koushi
STLaH (with and without AI)

[Junsho]

As someone in this space, who has been doing this work for years, I don't share an optimistic view of this. You know my disdain for capitalism in general, Jundo, and what I've experienced (and other colleagues also spread across the tech giants) is that there's more focus on profitability than productivity. "Humans and agents working together!" a phrase my company likes to throw around, is simply marketing.

THAT SAID, myself, my team, and my colleagues are all trying to push for this pro-worker stance. It'll probably cost us our own jobs in the end—but what else can we do but try? Greed is always going to be a brick wall.

Something something, beings are numberless, something something.

Gassho,
Koushi
STLaH (with and without AI)

I don't disdain capitalism; overall, it's the best model created by humans on a large scale, but I intend to agree with Koushi. As I can see and feel in my career, AI has started and continues to create new jobs, but mainly low-level ones. If everything continues as it is, the middle class may struggle to survive. We could end up with many people living in misery and others becoming super-rich. How this problem will be solved, including maintaining a healthy economy, I have no idea. I prefer to live one day at a time, preparing for the future but focusing on the present.

Gassho and deep bows
Sat Lah

[Jundo]

I don't disdain capitalism; overall, it's the best model created by humans on a large scale, but I intend to agree with Koushi. As I can see and feel in my career, AI has started and continues to create new jobs, but mainly low-level ones. If everything continues as it is, the middle class may struggle to survive. We could end up with many people living in misery and others becoming super-rich. How this problem will be solved, including maintaining a healthy economy, I have no idea. I prefer to live one day at a time, preparing for the future but focusing on the present.

Gassho and deep bows
Sat Lah

My next next book (tentative title: The Temple of Today & Tomorrow) may be about a Buddhist inspired social and economic revolution (non-violent, of course!) It proposes a course to its realization that can really work and be effective, unlike aspirations for a better world in the past.

Stay tuned.

Gassho, J
stlah

[Junsho]

My next next book (tentative title: The Temple of Today & Tomorrow) may be about a Buddhist inspired social and economic revolution (non-violent, of course!) It proposes a course to its realization that can really work and be effective, unlike aspirations for a better world in the past.

Stay tuned.

Gassho, J
stlah

I will be the first to buy it. I have no clue about the future and we are already really facing very challenge times related not just with war, but also with the change of the paradigm related to labor.

Gassho and deep bows.
SatLah