Michiganians know the pain of job losses all too well. All you have to do is look at the city of Detroit, a once-booming city now suffering in silence because of massive economic upheaval.

Detroit was the buzzing hub for automobile manufacturing until it was hit by the frantic rise of automation leading up to the 1960s, with hundreds of thousands of autoworkers losing their jobs. Unfortunately, this trendline has continued, with GM shuttering a plant in 2019 and Stellantis laying off nearly 1,000 employees at its Warren plant recently.Artificial intelligence

(AI) and automation will accelerate this devastating trendline. We are not prepared for the rate at which jobs will be eliminated across every sector of our economy.

Recent research predicts that between 2025 and 2030, two million m

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