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Schor's 2025 Senate AI Testimony
Schor's October 2025 testimony before the U.S. Senate arguing that working-time reduction should be central to the policy response to AI-driven displacement — preferring distributed hour reductions to concentrated unemployment.
In October 2025, Schor testified before the United States Senate on the policy implications of AI-driven productivity growth and labor displacement. Her central argument was that if AI produces the employment displacement that serious researchers forecast, the institutional response should include working-time reduction as a primary tool — a smaller reduction in hours for many workers rather than elimination of hours for some workers and intensification for others. The testimony framed reduced work hours not as a utopian preference but as a policy tool for managing displacement, distributing productivity gains, and maintaining social cohesion through technological transition. It remains the most visible policy-level application of Schor's career-long framework to the AI moment.
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The testimony emerged in the context of growing policy attention to AI's labor market effects, particularly following research by Anthropic, the Center for AI Safety, and labor economists documenting early displacement patterns in specific occupational categories. The Senate