Overview

• Sanders told the Joe Rogan podcast that productivity gains from AI and automation should translate into a four-day, 32-hour workweek to give employees more time for family and education.
• His Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, introduced last year, would require employers to pay overtime for any hours worked beyond 32 per week.
• He warned that without bold reforms, AI and robotics could displace millions of American workers and leave many unemployed.
• Sanders accused tech and corporate leaders of caring only about their bottom line and called for democratic oversight of AI policy rather than decisions by a handful of CEOs.
• Alongside the workweek mandate, he proposed universal basic income and stronger labor protections to support workers through the transition to an automated economy.