Building pro-worker artificial intelligence

2026

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This paper defines pro-worker technologies, including artificial intelligence, as technologies that make human skills and expertise more valuable by expanding worker capabilities.

* Explores the conceptual framework distinguishing five categories of technological change: labor-augmenting, capital-augmenting, automating, expertise-leveling, and new task-creating.
* Illustrates distinctions with real-world examples in aviation maintenance, electrical services, education, patent examination, and gig delivery.
* Identifies market failures and proposes nine policy directions to foster pro-worker AI development.

Tags: artificial intelligence, pro-worker technology, labor market, automation, policy

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