Post-Partisan Forum: The AI Apocalypse Is Coming: Here's What It'll Look Like

AI agents in U.S. corporations already outnumber human workers 80 to 1. Very few people realize how quickly professional jobs are being automated. Our political system neglected to defend the blue-collar workers when automation and trade threatened their livelihoods over the past 30 years. How much social uproar will we ignite when AI eliminate 95% of white collar jobs over the next five years? Can American democracy survive such stress?

At the next Forum, we’ll present what AI agents are, who’s promoting them, the risks they pose to society, and the solutions experts are calling for. We’ll finish by considering what we as citizens can do to ensure this economic sea change benefit all of us, not just a few oligarchic billionaires.

For those who want a quick briefing before we meet, consider these podcasts & videos (listed with the policy solutions they suggest):

• How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? (https://tinyurl.com/2n74jnav) - Create apprenticeship programs for workers & graduates displaced by AI
• Tariffs Can’t Save Workers from AI (https://youtu.be/zHeMJesLlqg) - Pace AI like we throttle medical research
• AI Agents Jumped Their Creator’s Guardrails (https://youtu.be/OMb5oTlC_q0) - We need “trust architectures” as to keep society safe