Socialize transition costs

Technological change routinely imposes concentrated, short‑term harms (lost jobs, localized danger, social destabilization) even when aggregate benefits follow. Policymakers should design institutions — compensation, retraining, liability rules, stronger safety nets and regulatory mechanisms — specifically to absorb and redistribute those harms rather than assuming markets or philanthropy will alone do the work. — If accepted, this reframes AI policy from an abstract existential debate to a concrete political question about who pays for disruption and which institutions must be remodeled to protect vulnerable workers and communities.