"The U.S. will lose the AI race if companies allow the tech to upend the American economy. You’re not going to beat China if you have destabilizing unemployment."
Velocity of enterprise autonomous AI adoption replacing workforce roles.
Public-private funding for high-speed technical retraining & transition vouchers.
Unemployment cushioning, portable health coverage, and local transition buffers.
High automation without adequate worker mitigation drives structural unemployment above 8%, eroding domestic political stability and supply chain continuity.
The simulator balances enterprise AI velocity against labor market dislocation and national stability. In the baseline race, high automation pushes AI competitiveness to eighty-eight point five, but raises unemployment to eight point four percent. Selecting Balanced Reskilling shifts automation to sixty-five while boosting reskilling to eighty, lifting economic stability into sustainable territory.