HUBBARD: “.. Many of the tech moguls who are the current superrich have not helped themselves in the conversation by saying, ‘My innovation is going to obliterate your life. .. It’s not too crazy to imagine a backlash.”
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Sen. Sanders asks Matsumoto about Trump's firing of Erika McEntarfer last year. Matsumoto says it was "not appropriate for me to comment on presidential personnel decisions." But he commits to releasing the numbers compiled by career staff without political interference.
Sen. Cassidy asks Matsumoto about potential alternatives to survey data for jobs numbers. Matsumoto cites payroll providers (like ADP), tax data and data from the UI system. But he notes that, “Each of these has a number of pros and cons as well as potential costs."
In Senate testimony, Brett Matsumoto, Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, promises to maintain the independence of the agency.
“It is important for the public to be confident that decisions at the BLS are benign driven by science rather than politics."
This is a really important conversation. Our research shows white women, Latinas & Native women are particularly overrepresented in AI-vulnerable occupations: their shares of the most AI-vulnerable jobs are nearly double their shares of the overall workforce nationalpartnership.org/report/ai-em...