Bernie Sanders: workers should reap AI benefits in form of ‘lowering workweek’

Vermont senator says technology should benefit ‘not just people on top’ as he cites financial stresses confronting most Americans

If the US’s ongoing artificial intelligence and robotics boom translates into more work being done faster, then laborers should reap some of the gains of that in the form of more paid time off, the liberal US senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday.

“I happen to believe that – as a nation – we should begin a serious discussion … about substantially lowering the workweek,” Sanders remarked on CNN’s State of the Union.

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