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AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is a Serious Threat

Holly Buck Matt Huber Jacobin
By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solutions right now.

This Week in People’s History, Jul 9–15, 2025

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The huge mushroom cloud resulting from testing an H-bomb ‘Nuclear Weapons Endanger the Human Race’ (1955), Standing Up for the Wrong Thing (1955), Jobless Workers on the March (1935), ‘The FBI Can Do No Wrong’ (1975), On the Eve of Destruction (1965)

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

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Supporters of striking hospital workers marching through Charleston, S.C. Hospital Workers Win (in 1969), Virginia Racists Split Hairs (1924), Anti-Racist Education Rules (1969), Protesters Beat the Rap (1969), German Troops in Rome (1944), The Fork Not Taken (1989), An Unemployed Army (1894), Transatlantic Slave Trade

Wages and Prices: Who Is Keeping Up With What?

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
Since President Biden took office, the media have run a constant stream of news stories about how high various prices were and telling their audiences that this has led to mass suffering.

Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation

David H. Price The Progressive
The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not robotic control of military weapons, but its application within the logic of capitalism—an alignment that will further relegate human needs as secondary to market forces.
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