Senate Uses ChatGPT for Job Forecasts

Democratic staff on the Senate HELP Committee asked ChatGPT to estimate AI’s impact by occupation and then cited those figures to project nearly 100 million job losses over 10 years. Examples include claims that 89% of fast‑food jobs and 83% of customer service roles will be replaced. — If lawmakers normalize LLM outputs as evidentiary forecasts, policy could be steered by unvetted machine guesses rather than transparent, validated methods.