Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has weighed in with a scorching proposal to confront one of the most existential employment issues of our time: AI automation.

A long-time advocate for labor rights, Sanders recently released a report about the impact AI could have on jobs over the next decade. The worst-case scenario outlined by the paper is startling: that “AI and automation could destroy nearly 100 million US jobs in a decade.”

The core problem, the report found, is that US workers aren’t receiving their fair share of the profits, which have risen drastically in recent years.

“Since 1973, there has been an explosion in technology and a massive increase in worker productivity,” it reads. “But the resulting economic gains have gone almost exclusively to those at the top. While productivit

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