AI & Robotics: Preventing Economic Collapse
Immediate, targeted regulation so AI and robotics don't gut the middle class.
AI and robotic automation are already triggering mass layoffs across white-collar and blue-collar work. Without immediate guardrails, displacement will outrun retraining, demand will collapse, and the economy will follow. Universal Basic Income is not a real answer — it makes citizens dependent on the same corporations and governments causing the disruption.
Companies that profit from automating humans out of the workforce share the responsibility for keeping the economy alive. Innovation must lift the country, not hollow it out.
Targeted federal regulation requiring companies above a defined size to allocate at least one third of revenue to human payroll at a fair average wage. Mandatory AI security baselines — kill switches, sandboxed execution, signed model provenance, and real-time anomaly detection — for any model touching critical infrastructure, financial systems, or personal data. Federal investment in AI-fluency, trades, and 'expert-in-the-loop' jobs. Clear AGI/ASI readiness standards put in place before, not after, the next capability jump.
American AI leadership without an American economic collapse. Workers stay employed, wages stay real, and the floor is raised for every model deployed inside our borders.
