AN AI FUTURE THAT WORKS FOR PEOPLE
A plan to protect workers and build the careers of tomorrow

Why I’m Sounding the Alarm

My background is in technology. I hold software and hardware patents, and I spent a decade working with Apple as an engineer and consultant. I’ve founded tech companies in transit technology, parking AI, and electric-vehicle management.

I love building new tools—but I’m alarmed by how fast AI and automation are coming for people’s jobs.

Right now, we have a Congress and a President who are not prepared for how this will hit ordinary people. Over the next decade, many people in their 30s and 40s risk being automated out of the jobs that currently support their families. Too many New Yorkers already work just to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world—AI could take even that away.

We need a plan.

The Big Idea

If technology is going to take work away from people, then government must guarantee a path toward better work.

My plan, the AI & Automation Transition and Opportunity Act, is built on a simple promise:

No worker should be left behind by AI and automation.
If your job is taken, your government owes you a path to a new career with dignity and good pay.

1. Early Warning on AI Job Losses

• Create a National AI & Automation Impact Observatory to track which jobs and industries are being automated.

• When a sector or city (like New York) hits a risk threshold, it automatically:

  • Unlocks extra training funds,

  • Triggers worker outreach, and

  • Requires big employers to file real AI impact plans instead of just PR.

2. A Federal “Right to Retraining”

If you lose your job because of AI or automation, you get:

• Guaranteed, fully funded retraining in a high-demand field:

  • Healthcare, clean energy, EV infrastructure, transit operations, coding, cybersecurity, and more.

• A living stipend while you train, so you can pay rent and buy groceries—not just take an online course at midnight after a second job.

• Programs run through community colleges, public universities, unions, and vetted nonprofits, ending in real credentials, not fake certificates.

3. Wage Insurance & Real Job Placement

Retraining isn’t enough. People have bills.

• Wage insurance for workers in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who move from higher-paying automated jobs into new fields, so they don’t fall off a financial cliff.

• A national AI Transition Job Platform that matches retrained workers to real jobs in sectors we know we must build anyway:

  • Climate resilience, EV and transit infrastructure, public tech, education, and care work.

4. A “Future of Work Corps”

Treat this like a New Deal-scale project:

• A Future of Work Corps that hires and trains people for:

  • EV charging networks and grid upgrades,

  • Modern transit systems and fare tech,

  • Green building retrofits and climate resilience,

  • Digital public infrastructure and cybersecurity,

  • Community health, childcare, and elder care enhanced—not replaced—by AI tools.

• Priority for workers displaced by AI and for residents of high-cost cities like New York.

5. Make Big Winners Help Pay

The companies and sectors making billions from AI should help fund the transition:

• An AI automation impact fee on very large firms that sharply increase profits while cutting jobs due to automation.

• Targeted transition funds for retraining, stipends, and wage insurance—not more blank-check corporate subsidies.

What This Means for New Yorkers

• If AI or automation takes your job, you won’t just get a pink slip and a “good luck.”

• You’ll have a legal right to retraining, income support while you learn, and help finding a real job in the new economy.

• We will build the careers of the future on purpose—instead of letting Wall Street and Silicon Valley decide who gets left behind.

My Commitment

I’ve spent my life building technology. I know how powerful AI is—and how dangerous it is to ignore its impact on working people.

In Congress, I will fight for:

• Serious, well-funded training and transition programs for anyone displaced by AI and automation.

• Good wages and meaningful work, not a future where people are discarded as “obsolete.”

• A federal government that finally takes responsibility for the world technology is creating.

We can have innovation and dignity. But only if we choose it.