Article | Business & Industry, Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Labor, Laws, Technology & Innovation

The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 2)

Silicon Valley promises abundance, but corporate America is built for extraction. The underlying operating system is stuck on making big shareholders rich the expense of everyone else. It’s time for a reboot. *From the “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work. (Read Part 1 of this article here).

By Lynn Parramore

Article | Business & Industry, Finance, Government & Politics, Industrial Policy, Laws, Technology & Innovation

The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 1)

AI is powered by more than algorithms – underneath is a flawed, decades-old corporate operating system that redirects gains away from workers. The good news: It doesn’t have to be this way. Part of “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work.

By Lynn Parramore

Article | Government & Politics, Health

To Fix Health Care, Treat It as a System: Memorandum to Senator Ronald Wyden and Democratic Members of the Senate Finance Committee

Senate Finance Committee Democrats are seeking evidence and proposals to shape health-care legislation. Their critique of insurers has merit, but reforms confined to insurance risk leaving hospitals, conglomerates, and much of the system’s extraction untouched, sets the stage for further disappointment.

By Phillip Alvelda and Thomas Ferguson

Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Labor

Social Security and the Vanishing Paycheck

Social Security runs on the paycheck. But a growing share of American wealth now comes from profits, assets, and ownership. The program that ended old-age poverty was never built for an economy that pays people this way.

By Pia Malaney