Black unemployed speed reaches the highest level since 2021 – and fears grow that AI could make it worse

When Black undertaking Earlier reported, the black unemployment rate has risen to the highest point since the COVID-19 Pandemie, which comes to 7.5% and, what is more, it seems to have an impact on the inability of recent graduates to land. The black unemployed speed is at the highest level since 2021.

According to CNNA possible explanation could be the use of artificial intelligence screening during the application process, which is also Together with unadulterating federal job reductions. The federal government has traditionally been a reliable employer of black Americans, even when the general employment market has been hostile.

The Economic Policy Institute has been noted in The analysis of the rising unemployment percentages That federal job reductions are often cited as a contributing factor for the employment losses of black women because of their relative over -representation in that sector.

As they stated: “This suggests that women do not lose jobs faster than men in the federal sector, but without additional information we cannot exclude the idea that the federal losses of women fall disproportionately to black women.”

A recent Business insider Report Marked Federal Reserve -President Jerome PowellThe comments about the role of artificial intelligence on the labor market. Powell noted that AI is a factor that contributes to the difficulties that recently graduates are confronted with finding work, although he added that “it is difficult to say how big it is.”

He explained: “It is possible that companies or other institutions that younger people have taken directly from the university can use more than in the past. That can be part of the story. However, it is also part of the story, which job creation is widely delayed.”

In recent years, as AI has been integrated in Smartphones, algorithms for searching for work and workplaces, the potential to transform American society has been widely discussed – both for his promise and ensuring that the existing inequalities in the employment ecosystem could deteriorate.

Earlier in June, Powell noted that AI has the potential to disturb the economy, in particular the labor force. The FED chair said at the time that he could improve productivity, replace employees or a combination of both.

Because it relates to black employees, although at least one leader of advocacy thinks that AI adoption should not be burdened by excessive protection, It shouldn’t be regulated at allA tactic that the Trump government is determined to adopt. This scheme entails a great risk for black Americans, according to Portia Allen-Kyle, the interim director of color of change.

Although she admitted HR dive That “AI is far too important at this early stage to nip in bureaucracy,” she also noted that the deregulation of this type of technology is a wink and a nod to an era of America where the rich and powerful ruled and there was no effective middle class. “Bottom Line: This is another blatant attempt to make a profit about people,” Allen-Kyle noted before he noticed that the Trump administration “wants to prevent the ability of states to regulate.”

Alles-Kyle Continued, “This may be a little bit controversial, but we’re still waiting for the use case that says ai is good for everyone. We just harbor’t Seen the scenario where this is, in and of it is a black people, it is just excellent for black people. Away from Human Labor Into Ai, Under the Guise of Efficiency in Many Ways, Lower-Wage Black Workers and Workers Canaries in the Coal Mine. ”

This of course is due to a report from a report from Capital B News over America’s new demand for artificial intelligencePowered by technology companies such as Meta, Alphabet and Xai, which cross with the rush of the Trump administration to the Environmental Protection Agency in Def A desk for Environmental Protections, which releases the way for data centers that are blended under the contamination of the bilds that are centers.

Such as Shelby Green, a researcher at the Energy and Policy Institute noted: “Most black households, especially national households in the south, do not use AI or so much computing power, but they have to pay that question in both money and dirty air.”

Green continued: “It is a bit like you go out and pay your employer for your dinner, and you order the chiciest things on the menu,” Green noted, with regard to her research into how rising utility accounts, some driven by data centers, pushing southern black communities into poverty. “You don’t really have to worry about how expensive it is because it does not come out of your pocket. That is how these companies work; they do not hold the risk of increasing electricity costs and these new power plants – that is.

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