Guidelines for AI and Shared Prosperity
For Policymakers
Suggested Uses for Policymakers
After performing the High-Level Job Impact Assessment, consult our recommendations to help minimize the risks and maximize the opportunities to advance shared prosperity with AI.
We currently anticipate two primary ways in which the Guidelines can be used by policymakers, described below. If you have feedback, suggestions, or would like to explore using the Guidelines in your work, please get in touch.
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Policymakers can integrate the Job Impact Assessment steps suggested by the Guidelines into existing or emerging standards, risk management frameworks, and conformity assessments to encourage AI-creating and AI-using organizations to assess and disclose their anticipated impacts on shared prosperity and abide by Responsible Practices suggested by the Guidelines. This can be done either as a part of “horizontal” or sectoral AI regulation or by making existing worker protection laws better fit the age of rapid adoption of AI throughout the economy.
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Policymakers can perform the Job Impact Assessment Tool’s risk and opportunities analysis themselves to better identify the possible impacts of AI uses of interest on shared prosperity. Such analysis can be relevant in multiple contexts, including:
- Considering the need for new regulation or modification of existing regulation in light of emergence of new uses of AI
- Informing good jobs creation strategy at the local, regional, or state level
- Making decisions about whether to provide tax breaks or other incentives to attract specific industries into the region with the goal of strengthening the local labor market
- Ensuring sustainability of social protection mechanisms in the context of changing technological landscape, anticipating the pace and timing of increases in unemployment benefits claims, and declines in labor income tax revenue
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Guidelines for AI and Shared Prosperity
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Step 1: Learn About the Guidelines
The Need for the Guidelines
The Origin of the Guidelines
Design of the Guidelines
Key Principles for Using the Guidelines
Step 2: Apply the Job Impact Assessment Tool
Instructions for Performing a Job Impact Assessment
Signals of Opportunity to Advance Shared Prosperity
Signals of Risk to Shared Prosperity
STEP 3: Stakeholder-Specific Recommendations
For AI-Creating Organizations
For AI-Using Organizations
For Policymakers
For Labor Organizations and Workers
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