63 Years Ago, AFL-CIO Warned Automation Could Bring 'National Catastrophe'
IsForAt · x · 2026-09-15
A resurfaced 1963 quote from the AFL-CIO: "Automation is rapidly becoming a curse to our society. It could bring us to national catastrophe." The quote is being cited in current AI job-displacement debates, illustrating how technological unemployment anxieties have recurred throughout history — the catastrophe never fully materialized, but transition pains were real. A useful historical reference for today's AI-and-jobs discourse.
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