Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review - Quantifying AI's impact on job cuts
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Nov 7, 2025 
Maria Curi, a tech policy reporter at Axios, dives into the hot-button issues of AI's impact on the job market and cybersecurity. She discusses the bipartisan bill that mandates companies report AI-related layoffs and explores the political motivations influencing AI policies. The conversation also covers the Heartland AI Caucus's efforts to attract tech investments to the Midwest while questioning the long-term economic benefits of data centers. Plus, Maria highlights the risks of AI-driven misinformation during elections, stressing the need for better protections.
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Mandate Reporting For Transparency
- Require companies to disclose AI-related layoffs and retraining offered to workers.
- That transparency would let policymakers and workers assess AI's true employment effects.
Data Gap On AI Job Impacts
- We lack granular, high-quality data on how AI actually affects workers and layoffs.
- Senators Josh Hawley and Mark Warner proposed reporting requirements to fill that data gap.
Conflicting Studies Reflect Poor Data
- Studies on AI's effects on employment contradict each other because data is poor and inconsistent.
- Maria Curi emphasized that better data is needed to guide policymaking on AI and labor.