The CEO of Walmart is acknowledging now that AI, artificial intelligence, will, quote,

change literally every job, close quote.

But who will control AI, and what could society reap if workers took control of this new technology?

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded

impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We're excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working

class and the crimes of big business.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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become a patron today. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization

Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is

available at Democracy at Work.Info. Professor Wolfe, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here.

We are looking at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Walmart CEO.

That's Doug McMillan. Of course, no one knows his name.

He says, this is a wake-up call.

AI is going to change literally every job.

Well, literally every job, who knows? Literally is a word that's

overused, as we all know, Richard. But there's no doubt about the fact that artificial intelligence,

which is really a sort of a broad label now for a whole new set of technologies is going to have a profound impact on

the workplace, on society, on the path forward, on the future. Under a government or a society

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