Molly Kinder

AI, work, and what comes next. (Very) begrudgingly back on this platform. Currently Senior Fellow at @BrookingsInst.

[Molly Kinder @Mollykinder]

First we have to see it. Grateful to @bencasselman for doing exactly that in the NYT: https://t.co/xJ7aqLMMk6. Then we have to act. My new essay calls for a response built for these women, not borrowed from programs made for someone else: https://t.co/M2mdYGjr9u.

[Molly Kinder @Mollykinder]

Earlier this spring I spent a sweltering afternoon with @nytimes' @bencasselman in the @BrookingsInst garden, talking AI and jobs. We bonded over the same diagnosis: the national conversation is missing millions of workers.

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What gets me is the quiet of it. No shuttered factory, no viral outrage. Just roles going unfilled, one desk at a time, as millions of women become a little poorer, their families a little more precarious, without anyone choosing it.

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@FareedZakaria Thanks so much for having me on the show, @FareedZakaria. More on the "Messy Middle" here: https://t.co/LdfAUX39wA

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Grateful to @FareedZakaria for inviting me on @CNN to speak about AI's impact on work.

I shared insights from my Substack describing the "Messy Middle" we are about to enter -- not a full jobs apocalypse, but a hard period of concentrated job losses: https://t.co/LdfAUX39wA.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

More than half of Americans believe AI could put them or someone in their household out of a job. But labor market data shows that the panic may be premature. What is the reality? My conversation with AI policy expert @Mollykinder:

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@davidshor Congrats @davidshor! Your polling has been invaluable in this moment. Excited to see the great momentum and the new org. 👏

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https://t.co/g4upAkadYr

[David Shor @davidshor]

Excited to be on Odd Lots to talk about the politics of AI.

AI today is less important than it will ever be.

Over the past year, AI rose in issue importance faster than any issue we track — it's now more important to voters than climate change, child care, and abortion.

[Molly Kinder @Mollykinder]

Lots of handwaving that "voters don't care about AI and jobs!!" because AI isn't top issue on @davidshor poll.

Friends.

Look at what AI outranks on importance:
✅Gas prices
✅ Abortion
✅ Race
✅ Guns

These are not fringe. They swing elections. AI could soon, too...

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Rumor has it that @Pontifex will sign a major papal encyclical about AI tomorrow, on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.

Rumored title: "Magnifica Humanitas". Dignity, worker rights, social justice, humanity likely at the core.

Last October, I delivered remarks at the Vatican and outlined what I hope is in the encyclical: https://t.co/KsaMq5XYY4

Summary of the themes in my remarks: https://t.co/fKN3rqeg0A

Plus an essay on why the Vatican's leadership on this matters, starting with Pope Francis's vision: https://t.co/07nkVhhbzK