Public Policies Needed to Ensure AI Complements Rather Than Replaces Human Workers

Generative AI risks displacing skilled labor and enabling more workplace surveillance if policies don't steer it towards complementing human skills.

Instead of automating jobs away, AI should be developed to create new capabilities and tasks for workers.

Public policy has a key role in encouraging AI innovation that elevates all workers rather than displaces them.

Suggested policies include equalizing tax rates for workers vs algorithms and limiting workplace surveillance.

The government should fund research into human-complementary AI and advise on appropriate adoption in public services.