EXECUTIVE ORDER

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq.), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. § 4501 et seq.), the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA, 50 U.S.C. § 4565), the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), the Clayton Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. § 12 et seq.), the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq.), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. § 80b et seq.), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.), the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. § 3101 et seq.), Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. § 157), the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.), and Article II of the Constitution of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: --- SECTION 1 — PREAMBLE This Order is written without apology and without euphemism. What is happening to the American workforce is not a natural economic evolution. It is a deliberate extraction. The people behind it have names, addresses, and balance sheets. They have chosen returns over humans. This Order chooses humans. The United States of America was not built by capital alone. It was built by the labor of human beings — people who showed up, built things with their hands and their minds, raised families, paid taxes, served in wars, and trusted that this country had a future that included them. That social contract is being shredded in broad daylight by a class of institutional investors, private equity firms, and corporate boards who have concluded that the only cost worth eliminating is the cost of the human being. Artificial intelligence is not the enemy. Let that be stated plainly. AI is one of the most powerful tools in human history. When deployed alongside a human being — augmenting judgment, accelerating research, catching errors, expanding access to knowledge — AI is a force of extraordinary good. This Order protects that deployment. What this Order prohibits is the use of AI as a weapon against the very people this government exists to serve. The data is not abstract. Over 771,000 Americans sleep without a home tonight. Thirty-four to thirty-nine million Americans live in poverty. Prescription drug use for anxiety, depression, and stress-related illness has reached historic levels. Illegal drug use is epidemic. Families are fracturing. Communities are hollowing out. These are not coincidences. These are the downstream consequences of treating human beings as costs to be cut. There is a second threat this Order addresses with equal force: the use of foreign capital — including capital from governments and entities that are adversaries of the United States, and from allied governments whose administrations may change — to acquire ownership and operational control of American companies and then deploy AI systems against the American workforce and within American critical infrastructure. A foreign government that controls the AI systems managing American healthcare, American financial services, or American communications infrastructure does not need a military to bring this country to its knees. It needs a board seat and a software update. Governments change. Administrations get captured by financial interests. Leaders are replaced by leaders with different priorities. This Order is written not for today's diplomatic environment but for every administration that follows. The control point is permanent. The relationship is not. And there is a third threat this Order addresses that has never been adequately confronted in American law: the deliberate manipulation of language, corporate structure, and legal framing to evade accountability. This Order eliminates that game. The standard of this Order is not what an entity claims to be doing. The standard is what an entity is actually doing, measured by results, not representations. --- SECTION 2 — DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Order, the following definitions apply. They are stated precisely and are to be interpreted in the manner most consistent with the protection of American workers. Any ambiguity is resolved in favor of the affected workers, not the regulated entity. 2.1. "AUGMENTATION" means an AI deployment in which: (a) the human workforce in the relevant employment category is maintained at or above its pre-deployment level; and (b) individual workers in that category perform more complex, higher-value, or better-compensated work as a result of AI assistance. Augmentation is not augmentation if the workforce shrinks. An AI system that performs the entirety of a previously human function is not an augmentation tool regardless of what it is called. 2.2. "COMPARABLE ROLE" means employment that satisfies all of the following conditions: (a) at least 95% of the worker's prior annual compensation, adjusted for inflation; (b) at least 95% of prior benefits, including health insurance, retirement contributions, and paid leave; (c) no more than a 10% increase in one-way commuting distance from the worker's primary residence; and (d) equal or higher employment status. A reclassification from W-2 employee to independent contractor is per se non-comparable regardless of stated compensation level. 2.3. "CONTROLLING INTEREST" means, for private equity or institutional investor purposes: (a) ownership of 25% or more of any class of equity, voting rights, or economic interest, measured by beneficial ownership across all affiliated funds and vehicles; or (b) any contractual, structural, or informal right to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors or equivalent governing body, regardless of ownership percentage. 2.4. "INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR" includes any private equity fund, hedge fund, pension fund, endowment, sovereign wealth fund, family office with more than $1 billion in assets under management, and any entity acting primarily as a vehicle for the aggregation and deployment of institutional capital, regardless of how it is formally classified. 2.5. "MATERIAL REDUCTION" in human employment means: (a) a reduction of more than 5% of headcount in an affected employment category within 24 months of AI deployment; or (b) an absolute reduction of more than 50 workers in that category within the same period; whichever threshold is reached first. 2.6. "SUBSTANCE-OVER-FORM STANDARD" means the interpretive rule established in Section 7.2, under which the question at every enforcement determination is what an entity is actually doing, measured by observable and verifiable outcomes, rather than what the entity calls what it is doing in any document, agreement, certification, or public statement. 2.7. "HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION PLAN" means the written plan, approved by HACO, that an entity must file before deploying any AI system in a covered employment category. 2.8. "UNITED STATES" for all purposes of this Order means the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and all territories and possessions of the United States, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. All protections, prohibitions, and requirements of this Order apply with full force within each of these jurisdictions. --- SECTION 3 — DECLARATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY 3.1. Pursuant to the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq.), the President hereby declares a National Emergency with respect to: (a) AI-driven mass workforce displacement executed for the financial benefit of institutional investors and private equity firms; (b) the use of AI systems to eliminate human employment in critical sectors without accountability or recourse; and (c) the acquisition of operational control over American commercial AI systems and critical infrastructure by entities owned, directed, or materially influenced by foreign governments, regardless of the current diplomatic status of those governments. 3.2. This declaration activates full presidential authority under IEEPA (50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq.) to regulate, restrict, and prohibit any transaction, commercial practice, investment structure, or business operation that constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. 3.3. The Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. § 4501 et seq.) is invoked to direct the allocation of human labor in critical infrastructure and essential services sectors. 3.4. FIRRMA (50 U.S.C. § 4565) and IEEPA together authorize the President to block, prohibit, suspend, and unwind any transaction, investment, or commercial arrangement by which any foreign government or foreign government-connected entity obtains or exercises control, influence, or beneficial ownership over AI systems deployed in the United States. --- SECTION 4 — THE HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION MANDATE 4.1. Effective sixty (60) days from the date of this Order, no person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust, investment vehicle, or any other legal entity operating under the laws of the United States, or conducting business within the United States or with United States persons, may deploy an artificial intelligence system, autonomous agent, robotic process automation system, or machine-learning-driven decision system for the purpose of, or with the effect of, eliminating, replacing, or substantially reducing a category of human employment, without satisfying the requirements of this Order. 4.2. PERMITTED DEPLOYMENT. AI systems may be lawfully deployed when: (a) the AI system functions alongside a human worker in a collaborative capacity, with the human retaining genuine decision authority and override capability; (b) the deployment increases the capability, productivity, safety, or compensation of human workers rather than substituting for them; (c) the entity maintains or increases its total domestic headcount in the affected employment category permanently from the date of AI deployment — the pre-deployment headcount in every affected category becomes the permanent minimum floor and does not expire; and (d) the entity holds a current, approved Human-AI Collaboration Plan on file with HACO. 4.2.1. PROFIT-THRESHOLD EXCEPTION TO THE PERMANENT HEADCOUNT FLOOR. The permanent headcount floor may be temporarily modified only under strictly defined and independently verified conditions of actual net operating losses — not reduced profits — for three (3) or more consecutive fiscal quarters, verified by an independent auditor selected by HACO. AI is not a replacement. The floor holds. 4.3. PROHIBITED DEPLOYMENT. AI systems may not be deployed when: (a) the primary purpose is headcount reduction; (b) the deployment results in material reduction in human employment and the entity cannot demonstrate that affected workers were retained in comparable roles; (c) the deployment decision was directed, incentivized, or conditioned by an institutional investor, private equity owner, or board directive whose primary motivation was labor cost reduction; or (d) the entity lacks a current, approved Human-AI Collaboration Plan. 4.4. SCOPE. These provisions apply to all employers with fifty (50) or more employees in the United States, to all entities receiving federal contracts, grants, or subsidies regardless of size, and to all entities in which a private equity firm, institutional investor, or foreign-affiliated investment vehicle holds any ownership or governance interest. Workers in all U.S. territories are covered on identical terms as workers in the fifty states. 4.5. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN WORKER COERCION AND SURVEILLANCE PRESSURE. The following practices are prohibited: (a) ALGORITHMIC PRODUCTIVITY COERCION. No employer may use an AI system to set, enforce, or escalate productivity quotas or work pace targets that exceed what a human being can sustain under safe, humane, and dignified working conditions. (b) CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE AS COERCION. No employer may deploy AI systems that monitor workers on a continuous, real-time basis in a manner designed to induce anxiety, suppress rest periods, or create a working environment in which a worker feels that every second of their time is under machine judgment. (c) AUTOMATED DISCIPLINE AND TERMINATION. No employer may discipline, demote, or terminate any worker based solely or primarily on the output of an automated monitoring or performance system. Every discipline or termination decision must involve a human supervisor who has directly reviewed the circumstances, heard from the affected worker, and signed a written determination. An algorithm does not fire a person. A person fires a person, and that person is accountable. (d) ALGORITHMIC WAGE MANIPULATION. No employer may use AI systems to dynamically reduce effective compensation, alter shift assignments, or diminish the economic terms of a worker's employment based on machine-generated assessments of the worker's replaceability, productivity variance, or behavioral profile. (e) PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION OF WORKERS. No employer may deploy AI systems that use behavioral data, psychological profiling, or predictive modeling of worker sentiment to suppress organizing activity, identify workers likely to raise grievances, or target workers for differential treatment based on machine-predicted loyalty or compliance. --- SECTION 5 — COMPLETE PROHIBITION: PRIVATE EQUITY AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR PORTFOLIO COMPANIES 5.1. STRUCTURAL FINDING. Private equity firms and institutional investors are not incidentally misaligned with human workforce protection — they are structurally disqualified from it. Their legal obligations, investment mandates, fee structures, incentive compensation, and performance benchmarks are constructed entirely around extraction. 5.2. PRESUMPTIVE PROHIBITION. Any company in which a private equity firm, hedge fund, institutional investor, or family office holds a controlling interest is prohibited from deploying any AI system, automated process, or machine-driven operation that results in a material reduction of human employment in any affected category, unless the company qualifies for the hardship exemption under Section 5.5. The corporate separateness of the portfolio company from the investor is not a defense. The investor owns the outcome. 5.3. PROHIBITION ON AUTOMATION CLAUSES IN INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS. Any investment agreement, shareholder agreement, management services agreement, or any other instrument governing a portfolio company is prohibited from containing any term that: (a) rewards, incentivizes, or conditions any benefit on headcount reduction achieved through AI or automation; (b) penalizes management for maintaining or increasing headcount; (c) requires replacement of human roles with automated systems; or (d) measures operational efficiency in a manner that treats human workers primarily as costs to be minimized. Any such provision in any existing or future agreement is void and unenforceable from the date of this Order. 5.4. PORTFOLIO COMPANY AUDIT REQUIREMENT. Within 120 days of this Order, every private equity firm and institutional investor with portfolio company investments in the United States shall submit to HACO a complete audit of every portfolio company's AI deployment status, workforce levels, automation plans, and investment agreement terms. 5.5. HARDSHIP EXEMPTION. A narrow hardship exemption exists for genuinely insolvent companies — but only with HACO pre-approval, only with an independent auditor selected by HACO (not the company), and only with a requirement to restore 100% of displaced workers when the company recovers. PE-owned companies invoking the exemption are presumed to have engineered the qualifying loss condition — reversing the burden of proof onto the investor. The exemption is valid for 18 months and is non-renewable. 5.6. ACQUISITION CERTIFICATION. No private equity firm or institutional investor may acquire a controlling or significant ownership interest in any U.S. operating company without first certifying to HACO that the acquisition will not result in AI-driven workforce reduction and that the investor accepts full joint and several liability for any violation of this Order. 5.7. JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY. Any private equity firm or institutional investor that directs, incentivizes, tolerates, or fails to prevent a violation of this Order by a portfolio company is jointly and severally liable for all penalties, reinstatement obligations, back pay awards, and damages arising from that violation. --- SECTION 6 — FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AND FOREIGN ADVERSARY ENTITIES: NATIONAL SECURITY PROHIBITION AND THREE-TIER FRAMEWORK 6.1. THE THREAT. A foreign government that controls the AI systems managing American healthcare claims does not need a weapon to deny care. A foreign government that controls the algorithmic systems managing American financial services does not need a sanction to freeze credit. It needs a board seat and a software update. This Order closes that door — and closes it against every foreign government, not only those currently designated as adversaries, because governments change and the control point endures. 6.2. DEFINITION — FOREIGN ADVERSARY ENTITY. The definition is based on the conduct and structure of the entity, not on the diplomatic status of the country with which it is affiliated, and not on any list maintained by any government agency. No diplomatic designation, treaty relationship, or government classification determines the applicability of this definition. 6.3. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES. Any entity in which a foreign adversary entity holds any beneficial ownership interest is prohibited from: (a) deploying any AI system within the United States that manages, controls, or has unescorted access to any critical infrastructure; (b) operating any automated decision-making system that materially affects healthcare, financial services, housing, or employment for U.S. persons; (c) collecting, retaining, processing, or transmitting data generated by U.S. workers or U.S. consumers to any server or entity under the operational control of a foreign adversary entity; and (d) providing AI-as-a-service to any American business, government entity, or individual. 6.4. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CATEGORIES. Foreign adversary-connected entities are immediately and permanently prohibited from holding any ownership interest, service contract, or data access arrangement with respect to: healthcare systems and pharmaceutical supply chains; financial systems and payment networks; communications infrastructure; electric grid, water systems, and energy; transportation networks; defense-adjacent manufacturing; federal, state, and local government information systems; and educational technology platforms serving K-12 or post-secondary institutions. 6.5. MANDATORY DIVESTITURE. Any existing arrangement prohibited under this Section shall be divested within 180 days. 6.9. THE PERMANENCE OF CONTROL POINTS. An AI system deployed in the United States can be updated, degraded, manipulated, or disabled by its owner from anywhere in the world at any time. That is a control point. The United States has no mechanism to prevent a foreign government from changing. It does have the mechanism of refusing to grant that government a control point in the first place. Relationships are temporary. Control points are not. 6.10. TIER ONE — ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN GOVERNMENT-OWNED OR CONTROLLED AI DEPLOYMENT. No entity that is owned, controlled, directed, or materially influenced by any foreign government — regardless of that government's current diplomatic relationship with the United States, regardless of alliance status, treaty obligations, or the apparent character of the government's current administration — may deploy any AI system within the United States, operate any automated decision-making system affecting American workers or consumers, or hold any ownership or operational control over AI infrastructure serving American critical sectors. This prohibition is absolute. It contains no allied-nation exception. It contains no trusted-partner exception. It does not expire. 6.12. TIER TWO — MANDATORY US AI DEPLOYMENT LICENSE FOR FOREIGN PRIVATELY-OWNED ENTITIES. Any AI system deployed within the United States by a private entity in which foreign private persons hold a majority ownership interest must obtain a US AI Deployment License from HACO. A license requires: (a) a fully independent United States subsidiary; (b) a majority of United States citizens on the board with no conflicting financial interest in the foreign parent; (c) all data stored exclusively on US servers; (d) full, unconditional, and unannounced HACO audit rights and a technical capability to suspend the AI system within twenty-four (24) hours of a government directive; and (e) no foreign parent override capability. Licenses are valid for two (2) years. 6.13. TIER THREE — ENHANCED DISCLOSURE AND MONITORING FOR MINORITY FOREIGN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. Any AI system deployed within the United States by an entity in which foreign private persons hold a minority ownership interest of 5% or more must register with HACO, submit to annual compliance audits, and certify annually that no foreign minority owner has exercised or attempted to exercise operational influence over the AI system's deployment in the United States. --- SECTION 7 — ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION: THE SUBSTANCE MANDATE AND ANTI-LANGUAGE-MANIPULATION PROVISIONS 7.1. THE PROBLEM IS ALREADY IN MOTION. Before the ink is dry on this Order, there are lawyers being paid to find the words that technically comply while achieving the prohibited outcome. They will argue that a system eliminating 80% of a department is not "replacing" workers but "transforming the role." This Section is the answer to all of it. 7.2. THE SUBSTANCE-OVER-FORM STANDARD. The question at every enforcement determination is not what an entity calls what it is doing. The question is what the entity is actually doing, measured by observable, verifiable outcomes: If the workforce in an affected category is smaller after an AI deployment than it was before, and the entity cannot demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that every displaced worker was retained in a comparable role, the deployment is presumed a violation regardless of how it is described. 7.3. DEFINITIONAL ANTI-GAMING. The following definitional rules are absolute: (a) "Augmentation" is not augmentation if the workforce shrinks; (b) "Collaboration" is not collaboration if the human's role is to rubber-stamp AI-generated decisions; (c) "Efficiency gain" is not a justification for workforce reduction; (d) "Retraining" means placement in a comparable role — severance and outplacement services are not retraining. 7.8. PROHIBITION ON LEGAL LANGUAGE MANIPULATION. This Order names and prohibits the deliberate manipulation of language itself — the systematic construction of legal arguments, definitional reframings, and regulatory comment strategies designed to erode the reach of this Order through incremental linguistic manipulation. 7.12. THE PLAIN MEANING STANDARD. When any term of this Order is susceptible to more than one interpretation, the interpretation most consistent with the plain meaning of the words, read in light of the Order's stated purpose of protecting American workers, governs. The interpretation most favorable to the covered entity does not govern. The interpretation most favorable to the affected workers governs. 7.13. EUPHEMISM PROHIBITION AND WATCH LIST. The following terms, when used in any Human-AI Collaboration Plan or compliance certification, shall trigger mandatory independent audit within thirty (30) days: "workforce optimization," "intelligent augmentation" where headcount has declined, "role transformation" where the transformed role does not exist, "efficiency realization" where efficiency is measured by headcount reduction. HACO shall maintain and regularly update a published Euphemism Watch List. 7.15. THE EFFECTS TEST — EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. This Order applies to every AI system that has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the employment, compensation, working conditions, displacement, or economic welfare of American workers — regardless of where that system is physically located. Physical location of the AI system is not the jurisdictional standard. Effect on American workers is the jurisdictional standard. 7.16. OFFSHORE CIRCUMVENTION PROHIBITION. No U.S. person, U.S.-incorporated entity, or entity receiving U.S. federal contracts or subsidies may move or re-route any AI system to servers or operational control located outside the United States for the purpose of placing that system outside the jurisdiction of this Order while continuing to deploy its effects against American workers. 7.17. FOREIGN PE FIRM AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR EXTRATERRITORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY. Any private equity firm or institutional investor incorporated or domiciled outside the United States that holds a controlling or significant ownership interest in any U.S. operating company is subject to this Order on identical terms as a domestically incorporated investor. Investment decisions made abroad that harm American workers are regulated by the law of the country whose workers are harmed. That country is this one. --- SECTION 8 — HEALTHCARE, ESSENTIAL SERVICES, AND CRITICAL SECTORS 8.1. HEALTHCARE DENIAL PROHIBITION. No insurance company, managed care organization, pharmacy benefit manager, or health plan may deny a claim for medically necessary care based solely or primarily on the output of an automated review system without a licensed physician, employed directly by the plan, reviewing, approving, and signing the denial determination. Algorithmic denial without physician accountability is unlawful from the date of this Order. 8.2. CRITICAL SECTOR MANDATORY REVIEW. In the following sectors, any AI deployment that reduces human headcount or decision authority is subject to mandatory Human-AI Collaboration review and HACO pre-approval prior to implementation: healthcare and health insurance; banking, credit, and public financial services; utilities, energy, and water; transportation and logistics; emergency services and public safety; K-12 and post-secondary education; food production and distribution; housing and residential construction; and federal, state, and local government services. --- SECTION 9 — HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION OFFICE AND ENFORCEMENT 9.1. ESTABLISHMENT. Within ninety (90) days of signing, the Secretary of Labor shall establish the Human-AI Collaboration Office (HACO) within the Department of Labor. HACO shall: (a) develop and publish binding Human-AI Collaboration Standards; (b) receive, review, approve, or reject Human-AI Collaboration Plans; (c) conduct independent audits of covered entities; (d) receive and process foreign ownership disclosure filings; (e) investigate violations and refer findings to DOJ, FTC, SEC, and the Wage and Hour Division; (f) maintain the Corporate AI Violation Registry; and (g) publish quarterly public enforcement reports in plain language. 9.2. PENALTIES. Violations of this Order are subject to: (a) civil penalties of not less than $50,000 and not more than $500,000 per affected worker per violation; (b) disqualification from federal contracts and subsidies for not less than three (3) years; (c) mandatory reinstatement with back pay and benefits restoration, with a twenty-four (24) month severance guarantee where reinstatement is not practicable; and (d) criminal referral to DOJ where willful, coordinated, investor-directed, or foreign government-connected violation is present. For violations involving foreign government-connected entities in critical infrastructure, civil penalties shall be not less than $1,000,000 per violation with no statutory maximum. 9.3. WORKER RIGHTS ON DISPLACEMENT. No American worker shall be displaced by an AI system without receiving, in advance: (a) written notice not less than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to displacement; (b) fully employer-funded retraining of not less than twelve (12) months in a field of the worker's choosing; (c) maintained health insurance for the worker and immediate family for not less than twenty-four (24) months following displacement; and (d) a transition stipend equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the worker's most recent annual compensation for months one through twelve and not less than fifty percent (50%) for months thirteen through twenty-four. 9.4. RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND REFUSE. The right to collectively refuse AI deployment that workers determine harmful to their employment, compensation, or working conditions is affirmed as protected activity under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. No employer may retaliate against any worker or union for exercising this right. 9.5. NATIONAL AI TRANSITION FUND. The federal government shall establish a National AI Transition Fund, funded by a one percent (1%) assessment on the gross revenue of any covered entity that deploys AI systems in the United States, to provide supplemental assistance to workers displaced in sectors where transition support requirements cannot be immediately enforced. --- SECTION 10 — AMERICA IS NOT A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT The President speaks directly here — not to lawyers, not to lobbyists, not to the financial engineers who have spent four decades treating this country as a yield-generating asset class. This is addressed to every American who has been told that their displacement was inevitable, that automation cannot be stopped, that the market has spoken, that the algorithm decided, that there was no one to appeal to because there was no human being making the decision. The market has not spoken. A small number of people with enormous concentrations of capital have spoken. And governments that are not our friends — and some that are, for now — have used it to quietly acquire control points in American infrastructure. Waiting. Learning. Mapping the vulnerabilities of a country that was too busy optimizing returns to notice who was buying the controls. THIS ENDS. AI is a tool. A remarkable one. Deployed alongside a human being, it can help a nurse catch a diagnosis, help a teacher reach a struggling student, help an engineer find a flaw before it becomes a tragedy. That is the future this Order is protecting. Not the future where a boardroom decides a workforce has been successfully replaced, the quarter improves, and the human wreckage is someone else's problem. It is not someone else's problem. It is the President's problem. This Order is the answer. --- SECTION 11 — ABSOLUTE PROTECTION OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND PROHIBITION ON AI MANIPULATION OF THE PUBLIC 11.2. COMPLETE PROHIBITION ON GOVERNMENT WORKER REPLACEMENT. No AI system, autonomous agent, automated decision platform, or machine-driven process may be used to replace, eliminate, or substitute for any employee of the federal government, any state government, any territorial government, or any local or municipal government, in the performance of any function that: (a) involves the exercise of discretionary governmental authority; (b) involves direct contact with or service to the American public; (c) involves the administration, enforcement, or interpretation of law, regulation, or policy; (d) involves the custody, safety, or welfare of any person; or (e) involves any function the Constitution or applicable law assigns to human public servants. AI may assist government workers. It may not replace them. 11.4. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN MANIPULATION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. No federal agency, federal contractor, federally funded entity, or any person acting at the direction or request of any federal agency may deploy any AI system for the purpose of shaping, influencing, manipulating, or conditioning the beliefs, behaviors, emotions, or political views of the American public, generating synthetic content designed to simulate authentic public sentiment, or monitoring, profiling, or scoring American citizens for the purpose of predicting or influencing their political behavior. --- SECTION 12 — CALL FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: THE RIGHT TO HUMAN LABOR AND HUMAN GOVERNANCE 12.1. THE LIMITS OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER. This Order does what an Executive Order can do. Executive Orders can be reversed. Administrations change. Courts interpret. Regulatory agencies can be captured. The rights established in this Order deserve constitutional protection. This Order is a floor, not a ceiling. The ceiling is the Constitution. 12.2. FORMAL CALL FOR CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. The President hereby formally calls upon the Congress of the United States to convene hearings on a Constitutional Amendment establishing: (a) the right of every American to be considered for employment in any category of work before that work is assigned to an automated system; (b) the right of the American people to be governed at every level by human officials individually accountable for the decisions made in their name; (c) the right of American workers not to be subjected to AI-driven surveillance, productivity coercion, algorithmic discipline, or psychological manipulation in the workplace; and (d) the prohibition on any foreign government or transnational extractive entity acquiring operational control over AI systems deployed within the United States against the interests of the American people. --- SECTION 13 — WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS AND THE CORPORATE AI VIOLATION PUBLIC REGISTRY 13.3. ANTI-RETALIATION. No covered entity may terminate, demote, reduce the compensation of, alter the working conditions of, threaten, harass, blacklist, or take any adverse action against any person for reporting a violation of this Order. 13.5. FINANCIAL REWARD. Any person whose report leads to a civil penalty collection, criminal conviction, or consent order arising from a violation of this Order is entitled to a financial reward of not less than 15% and not more than 30% of the total monetary amount recovered by the government as a result of the information provided. 13.8. THE CORPORATE AI VIOLATION PUBLIC REGISTRY. The Department of Labor shall establish and maintain a publicly accessible Corporate AI Violation Registry that lists every entity found to have violated this Order. Records are permanent. Completion of a penalty or consent order does not result in removal. Any entity with an active unresolved violation is automatically disqualified from new federal contracts, grants, and subsidies. --- SECTION 15 — PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN FINANCIAL MARKET EXPLOITATION AND ALGORITHMIC ENSLAVEMENT 15.3. PROHIBITION ON ALGORITHMIC RENT AND ESSENTIAL GOODS PRICE COORDINATION. The use of AI systems, shared algorithmic pricing platforms, or common pricing software by competing providers of essential goods and services — where the AI system produces pricing outcomes functionally equivalent to cartel price-fixing — is hereby declared a per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The algorithm is the conspiracy. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are directed to prosecute AI-driven pricing coordination in essential goods markets as a priority antitrust enforcement matter. 15.4. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXTRACTION. Any AI system deployed by a fiduciary managing retirement assets on behalf of American workers that generates fee structures, trading patterns, or portfolio decisions whose primary effect is to increase management compensation at the expense of beneficiary returns is hereby declared a breach of ERISA fiduciary duty. --- SECTION 17 — PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION AND ECOLOGICAL EXTRACTION 17.1. THE PRINCIPLE. The extractive mandate does not stop at human workers. The same logic that treats people as costs to be eliminated treats animals as production units to be optimized and the natural world as a resource to be consumed until it is gone. Life is not a resource. Nature is not an asset class. Animals are not inputs. This Order treats those statements as governing principles, not aspirational values. 17.3. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION. No entity subject to this Order may deploy any AI system for the purpose of, or with the direct effect of: (a) increasing confinement density or intensifying the suffering of any animal in any agricultural, research, entertainment, or commercial setting where such intensification serves primarily to reduce costs or increase financial return; (b) optimizing factory farming operations in ways that treat animals exclusively as production units without legally binding animal welfare standards as a co-equal constraint; (c) facilitating, enabling, coordinating, or concealing the illegal capture, trade, transport, or sale of any wild animal or animal product; or (d) identifying, tracking, or targeting wild animal populations for commercial extraction beyond scientifically established sustainable yield limits. 17.4. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ECOLOGICAL EXTRACTION. No entity subject to this Order may deploy any AI system for the purpose of, or with the direct effect of: (a) optimizing resource extraction operations in ways that exceed sustainable yield limits, damage ecosystem integrity, or contaminate water systems; (b) identifying or targeting ecologically sensitive areas or protected lands for commercial extraction in circumvention of applicable environmental law; (c) optimizing supply chains in ways that externalize ecological costs onto natural systems and future generations; or (d) operating any AI system in agricultural production that systematically degrades soil health, depletes aquifers, or reduces pollinator populations at a rate exceeding the regenerative capacity of the affected ecosystem. 17.7. THE INTERCONNECTION PRINCIPLE. The protection of American workers, the protection of American animals, and the protection of American ecosystems are expressions of a single principle: life is not a resource to be extracted for financial return. The extractive mandate threatens everything it touches. This Order names everything it touches. --- SECTION 16 — GENERAL PROVISIONS 16.5. PHASED EFFECTIVE DATES. (a) Day 1 — upon signature: Sections 1, 2, 3, 6 (foreign government and foreign adversary prohibitions), 7 (anti-circumvention), 10, and 14 take effect immediately. (b) Day 180: Section 8.1 (healthcare automated denial prohibition) takes effect. (c) Day 365: HACO shall be fully operational. Human-AI Collaboration Plans are required for all new AI deployments after this date. (d) Day 730: Full compliance required for all existing AI deployments. No deployment that causes material reduction in human employment may continue after this date unless it satisfies Section 4 or qualifies for the hardship exemption under Section 5.5. 16.6. CONGRESSIONAL TRANSMITTAL. The President shall transmit this Order to the relevant committees of Congress within thirty (30) days as a proposed bill and shall formally request expedited legislative action. This Order does not expire pending congressional action. --- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this _____ day of __________, in the year of our Lord __________, and of the Independence of the United States of America the __________. _______________________________________________ VINCENT CORDOVA President of the United States --- Cordova 2028 | cordova2028.com | info@cordova2028.com

American Worker Protection and Human-AI Collaboration Act To protect American workers from artificial intelligence-driven workforce displacement, mandate human-AI collaboration as a condition of interstate commerce, prohibit the weaponization of AI systems by private equity firms and institutional investors against the American workforce, establish a national security framework governing foreign government and foreign-owned AI deployment within the United States, protect federal and state government workers from AI replacement, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: --- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE This Act may be cited as the "American Worker Protection and Human-AI Collaboration Act." --- SECTION 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE Congress finds and declares the following: (a) The systematic replacement of American workers by artificial intelligence systems, executed for the primary purpose of reducing labor costs and increasing returns to institutional capital, constitutes a threat to the national security, economic stability, public health, and social cohesion of the United States. (b) Over 771,000 Americans are homeless; 34 to 39 million Americans live in poverty; prescription and illegal drug dependency have reached historic levels; and these conditions are materially worsened by large-scale employment displacement driven by automation strategies controlled by financial entities with no legal accountability to American workers or communities. (c) Artificial intelligence, when deployed responsibly alongside human workers, is a powerful tool for human advancement — increasing productivity, expanding access to knowledge, and improving quality of life. The purpose of this Act is not to restrict beneficial AI use but to prohibit the use of AI as an instrument of workforce displacement and financial extraction. (d) Private equity firms and institutional investors are structurally misaligned with human workforce protection. Their legal obligations, investment mandates, fee structures, and performance benchmarks are constructed around extraction. Their deployment of AI will, in every case not externally constrained, result in workforce displacement in pursuit of investor returns. (e) Foreign governments — including allied governments whose administrations may change — that hold operational control over AI systems deployed within the United States represent a structural national security vulnerability. Governments change. Administrations are captured by financial interests. Leaders are replaced. A control point granted in friendship becomes a weapon in different hands. The United States cannot build its national security architecture around the assumption that today's partner is tomorrow's partner. (f) The deliberate manipulation of legal language, corporate structure, and definitional interpretation to evade the requirements of worker protection law is a documented, organized practice that this Act prohibits with the same force as the underlying conduct it would enable. --- SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS (1) AUGMENTATION means an AI deployment in which: (A) the human workforce in the relevant employment category is maintained at or above its pre-deployment level; and (B) individual workers in that category perform more complex, higher-value, or better-compensated work as a result of AI assistance. Augmentation is not augmentation if the workforce shrinks. (2) COMPARABLE ROLE means employment satisfying all of the following: (A) at least 95 percent of the worker's prior annual compensation, adjusted for inflation; (B) at least 95 percent of prior benefits including health insurance, retirement contributions, and paid leave; (C) no more than a 10 percent increase in one-way commuting distance; and (D) equal or higher employment status. Reclassification from W-2 employee to independent contractor is per se non-comparable regardless of stated compensation. (3) CONTROLLING INTEREST means: (A) ownership of 25 percent or more of any class of equity, voting rights, or economic interest, measured by beneficial ownership across all affiliated funds and vehicles; or (B) any contractual or structural right to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors or equivalent governing body. (4) COVERED EMPLOYER means any employer with 50 or more employees in the United States, any entity receiving federal contracts, grants, or subsidies regardless of size, and any entity in which a private equity firm, institutional investor, or foreign-affiliated investment vehicle holds any ownership or governance interest. (5) HACO means the Human-AI Collaboration Office established under Section 8 of this Act. (6) INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR includes any private equity fund, hedge fund, pension fund, endowment, sovereign wealth fund, family office with more than $1 billion in assets under management, and any entity acting primarily as a vehicle for the aggregation and deployment of institutional capital. (7) MATERIAL REDUCTION means: (A) a reduction of more than 5 percent of headcount in an affected employment category within 24 months of AI deployment; or (B) an absolute reduction of more than 50 workers in that category within the same period; whichever threshold is first reached. --- SECTION 4. HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION MANDATE (a) GENERAL PROHIBITION. Effective 365 days after the date of enactment, no covered employer operating within the United States may deploy an artificial intelligence system, autonomous agent, robotic process automation system, or machine-learning-driven decision system for the purpose of, or with the effect of, eliminating, replacing, or substantially reducing a category of human employment without satisfying the requirements of this Section. Workers in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa are covered on identical terms as workers in the fifty states. (b) PERMITTED DEPLOYMENT. An AI system may be deployed by a covered employer when: (1) The AI system functions alongside a human worker in a collaborative capacity, with the human retaining genuine decision authority and override capability; (2) The deployment increases the capability, productivity, safety, or compensation of human workers rather than substituting for them; (3) The employer maintains or increases its total domestic headcount in the affected employment category permanently from the date of AI deployment; and (4) The employer holds a current, approved Human-AI Collaboration Plan on file with HACO. (c) PROFIT-THRESHOLD EXCEPTION. The permanent headcount floor may be temporarily modified only when: (1) the employer has sustained actual net operating losses for three or more consecutive fiscal quarters, verified by an independent auditor selected by HACO; (2) the employer demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that it has exhausted all other cost-reduction measures; (3) every worker affected receives the full protection package of Section 7; and (4) upon return to net profitability, the headcount floor is reinstated within 90 days. (d) PROHIBITED DEPLOYMENT. An AI system may not be deployed when: (1) the primary purpose is headcount reduction; (2) the deployment results in material reduction in human employment and the employer cannot demonstrate all affected workers were retained in comparable roles; (3) the deployment was directed or conditioned by an institutional investor or board directive whose primary motivation was labor cost reduction; or (4) the employer lacks a current, approved Human-AI Collaboration Plan. (e) PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN WORKER COERCION. (1) ALGORITHMIC PRODUCTIVITY COERCION. No covered employer may use an AI system to set, enforce, or escalate productivity quotas or work pace targets that exceed what a human being can sustain under safe, humane, and dignified working conditions. (2) SURVEILLANCE AS COERCION. No covered employer may deploy AI systems that monitor workers on a continuous real-time basis in a manner designed to induce anxiety, suppress rest periods, or create working conditions under constant machine judgment. (3) AUTOMATED DISCIPLINE AND TERMINATION. No covered employer may discipline, demote, or terminate any worker based solely or primarily on the output of an automated monitoring system. Every such decision requires a human supervisor who has reviewed the circumstances, heard from the affected worker, and signed a written determination. (4) ALGORITHMIC WAGE MANIPULATION. No covered employer may use AI systems to dynamically reduce effective compensation or diminish the economic terms of a worker's employment based on machine-generated assessments of replaceability or behavioral profile. (5) PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION. No covered employer may deploy AI systems using behavioral data or psychological profiling to suppress organizing activity, identify workers likely to raise grievances, or target workers for differential treatment based on machine-predicted loyalty or compliance. Such use constitutes an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act. --- SECTION 5. PRIVATE EQUITY AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACCOUNTABILITY (a) STRUCTURAL FINDING. Congress finds that private equity firms and institutional investors are structurally disqualified from genuine human workforce protection because their legal obligations, investment mandates, incentive compensation, and performance benchmarks are constructed entirely around extraction. (b) PRESUMPTIVE PROHIBITION. Any company in which a private equity firm, hedge fund, institutional investor, or family office holds a controlling interest is prohibited from deploying any AI system or automated process that results in a material reduction of human employment in any affected category, unless the company qualifies for the hardship exemption under subsection (e). (c) PROHIBITION ON AUTOMATION CLAUSES. Any investment agreement, shareholder agreement, or any other instrument governing a portfolio company is prohibited from containing any term that: (1) rewards or incentivizes headcount reduction achieved through AI or automation; (2) penalizes management for maintaining or increasing headcount; (3) requires replacement of human roles with automated systems as a condition of continued investment; or (4) measures operational efficiency in a manner that treats human workers primarily as costs to be minimized. Any such provision in any existing or future agreement is void and unenforceable. (d) PORTFOLIO AUDIT REQUIREMENT. Within 120 days of enactment, every private equity firm and institutional investor with portfolio company investments in the United States shall submit to HACO a complete audit of every portfolio company's AI deployment status, workforce levels, automation plans, and investment agreement terms. (e) HARDSHIP EXEMPTION. (1) HACO PRE-APPROVAL REQUIRED. No portfolio company may invoke the hardship exemption or begin AI deployment under it without first obtaining pre-approval from HACO. (2) ELIGIBILITY. To qualify, the company must demonstrate: (A) actual net operating losses for three or more consecutive fiscal quarters; (B) exhaustion of all other cost-reduction measures; and (C) that AI deployment is strictly necessary to prevent liquidation. (3) DURATION. The exemption is valid for 18 months and is non-renewable. (4) WORKER PROTECTIONS. All worker rights under Section 7 remain in full effect during the exemption period without reduction or exception. (5) FULL RESTORATION. Within 12 months after the exemption ends, the company must restore 100 percent of displaced workers to comparable roles. (f) JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY. Any private equity firm or institutional investor that directs, incentivizes, tolerates, or fails to prevent a violation of this Act by a portfolio company is jointly and severally liable for all penalties, reinstatement obligations, back pay awards, and damages. Corporate separateness is not a defense. --- SECTION 6. FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN ADVERSARY AI PROHIBITION: THREE-TIER FRAMEWORK (a) TIER ONE — ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN GOVERNMENT-OWNED AI. No entity that is owned, controlled, directed, or materially influenced by any foreign government — regardless of that government's current diplomatic relationship with the United States, regardless of alliance status or treaty obligations — may deploy any AI system within the United States, operate any automated decision-making system affecting American workers or critical infrastructure, or hold any ownership or operational control over AI infrastructure serving American critical sectors. This prohibition is absolute and permanent. It contains no allied-nation exception. Governments change. Administrations are captured by financial interests. The control point is permanent. The relationship is not. (b) FOREIGN ADVERSARY ENTITIES. Any entity in which a foreign adversary entity holds any beneficial ownership interest is prohibited from: (1) deploying any AI system within the United States that manages or controls critical infrastructure; (2) operating any automated decision-making system materially affecting eligibility for healthcare, financial services, housing, or employment for U.S. persons; and (3) transmitting data generated by U.S. workers or consumers to any server or entity under the operational control of a foreign adversary entity. (c) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CATEGORIES. Foreign government-connected entities and foreign adversary entities are permanently prohibited from holding any ownership interest, service contract, or data access arrangement with respect to: (1) healthcare systems, hospital networks, insurance claims processing, and pharmaceutical supply chains; (2) financial systems, banking infrastructure, payment networks, and credit reporting; (3) communications infrastructure, internet backbone, and satellite systems; (4) electric grid, water systems, and energy infrastructure; (5) transportation networks including autonomous vehicle systems; (6) defense-adjacent manufacturing and supply chains; (7) federal, state, and local government information systems; and (8) educational technology platforms serving K-12 or post-secondary institutions. (d) TIER TWO — US AI DEPLOYMENT LICENSE. Any AI system deployed within the United States by a private entity in which foreign private persons hold a majority ownership interest must obtain a US AI Deployment License from HACO. A license requires: (1) a fully independent US subsidiary with genuine operational authority; (2) a majority-American board whose members hold no conflicting financial interest in the foreign parent; (3) all data stored exclusively on servers physically located within the United States; (4) full government audit and override authority including the technical capability to suspend the AI system within 24 hours of a government directive; and (5) no foreign parent override capability of any kind. Licenses are valid for two years and subject to revocation without advance notice. (e) TIER THREE — MINORITY FOREIGN OWNERSHIP DISCLOSURE. Any AI system deployed within the United States by an entity in which foreign private persons hold a minority ownership interest of 5 percent or more must register with HACO, submit to annual compliance audits, and certify annually that no foreign minority owner has exercised operational influence over the AI system's deployment in the United States. (f) MANDATORY DIVESTITURE. Any existing arrangement prohibited under this Section shall be divested within 180 days of enactment. (g) DATA SOVEREIGNTY. The transmission of data generated by American workers, consumers, or government operations to any server or entity accessible to a foreign government or foreign adversary entity is prohibited, regardless of anonymization, aggregation, or encryption. (h) CRIMINAL LIABILITY. Any person who knowingly conceals foreign government ownership, influence, or data access in violation of this Act is subject to criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 50 U.S.C. § 1705. --- SECTION 7. WORKER RIGHTS AND TRANSITION PROTECTIONS No American worker shall be displaced by an AI system without receiving, in advance: (a) Written notice not less than 120 days prior to displacement; (b) Fully employer-funded retraining of not less than 12 months in a field of the worker's choosing; (c) Maintained health insurance for the worker and immediate family for not less than 24 months following displacement; and (d) A transition stipend equal to 100 percent of the worker's most recent annual compensation for months one through twelve, and not less than 50 percent for months thirteen through twenty-four. The right to collectively refuse AI deployment is affirmed as protected activity under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. --- SECTION 8. HUMAN-AI COLLABORATION OFFICE (a) ESTABLISHMENT. Within 180 days of enactment, the Secretary of Labor shall establish the Human-AI Collaboration Office (HACO) within the Department of Labor. (b) DUTIES. HACO shall: (1) develop and publish binding Human-AI Collaboration Standards; (2) receive, review, approve, or reject Human-AI Collaboration Plans; (3) conduct independent audits of covered entities; (4) receive and process foreign ownership disclosure filings; (5) investigate violations and refer findings to DOJ, FTC, and SEC; (6) maintain the Corporate AI Violation Public Registry; (7) maintain the Euphemism Watch List; and (8) publish quarterly public enforcement reports in plain language. --- SECTION 9. ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION AND ANTI-LANGUAGE-MANIPULATION (a) SUBSTANCE-OVER-FORM STANDARD. The question at every enforcement determination is not what an entity calls what it is doing but what the entity is actually doing, measured by observable, verifiable outcomes. No contractual label, corporate structure, legal opinion, or definitional argument may defeat the actual economic or operational reality. (b) RETROACTIVE RESTRUCTURING. Any corporate restructuring, ownership transfer, or contractual modification executed after the date of introduction of this Act in Congress, the effect of which is to reduce apparent exposure to enforcement, is presumed evasive and subject to unwinding. (c) PROHIBITION ON DEFINITIONAL ARBITRAGE. No person or entity may, for compensation or in furtherance of the interests of a covered entity, engage in the systematic development, promotion, or submission to any regulatory body or court of legal interpretations whose primary purpose is to narrow the meaning of any term in this Act in a manner that would permit conduct this Act is designed to prohibit. (d) EUPHEMISM WATCH LIST. HACO shall publish and regularly update a Euphemism Watch List of terms and phrases commonly used to disguise prohibited conduct. Any compliance filing using a listed term triggers mandatory independent audit within 30 days. (e) PLAIN MEANING STANDARD. When any term of this Act is susceptible to more than one interpretation, the interpretation most consistent with the protection of American workers governs. Any ambiguity is resolved in favor of the affected workers. (g) THE EFFECTS TEST — EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. This Act applies to every AI system that has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the employment, compensation, working conditions, displacement, or economic welfare of American workers — regardless of where that system is physically located. Physical location is not the jurisdictional standard. Effect on American workers is. (h) OFFSHORE CIRCUMVENTION PROHIBITION. No U.S. person, U.S.-incorporated entity, or entity receiving U.S. federal contracts or subsidies may move or re-route any AI system performing workforce management, monitoring, compensation-setting, discipline, termination, or displacement functions for American workers to servers or operational control located outside the United States for the purpose of evading the requirements of this Act. (i) FOREIGN INVESTOR EXTRATERRITORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY. Any private equity firm, hedge fund, or institutional investor incorporated or domiciled outside the United States that holds a controlling or significant ownership interest in any U.S. operating company is subject to this Act on identical terms as a domestically incorporated investor. Foreign domicile is not a defense. --- SECTION 10. GOVERNMENT WORKER PROTECTION (a) PROHIBITION ON REPLACEMENT. No AI system, autonomous agent, or automated decision platform may be used to replace, eliminate, or substitute for any employee of the federal government, any state government, any territorial government, or any local or municipal government, in the performance of any function involving: (1) the exercise of discretionary governmental authority; (2) direct contact with or service to the American public; (3) the administration, enforcement, or interpretation of law, regulation, or policy; (4) the custody, safety, or welfare of any person; or (5) any function the Constitution or applicable law assigns to human public servants. (b) FEDERAL CONTRACTOR PROHIBITION. No federal contractor may deploy AI systems that replace human positions performing work on behalf of any federal agency, or that perform functions previously performed by federal civilian employees through outsourcing or managed services arrangements. (c) PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN PUBLIC MANIPULATION. No federal agency, federal contractor, or federally funded entity may deploy any AI system for the purpose of shaping, manipulating, or conditioning the beliefs, behaviors, or political views of the American public; generating synthetic content designed to simulate authentic public sentiment; or monitoring, profiling, or scoring American citizens for the purpose of influencing political behavior or civic participation. --- SECTION 11. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS AND CORPORATE AI VIOLATION PUBLIC REGISTRY (a) WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS. Any person who in good faith reports a violation of this Act is entitled to: (1) full anti-retaliation protection; (2) civil immunity from suit by the reported entity; (3) a financial reward of not less than 15 percent and not more than 30 percent of any civil penalty collected as a result of the information provided; and (4) representation by the Department of Labor's Office of the Solicitor at no cost if the whistleblower faces retaliation or legal action. (b) MANDATORY SELF-REPORTING. Any covered entity that discovers a violation of this Act within its own operations must self-report to the Department of Labor within 30 days. Failure to self-report doubles the applicable civil penalty. (c) CORPORATE AI VIOLATION PUBLIC REGISTRY. The Department of Labor shall establish and maintain a publicly accessible Corporate AI Violation Registry that lists every entity found to have violated this Act, with permanent records, searchable at no cost, integrated into federal procurement systems, and reported publicly on a quarterly basis. --- SECTION 12. ENFORCEMENT (a) CIVIL PENALTIES. Violations are subject to civil penalties of not less than $50,000 and not more than $500,000 per affected worker per violation. For violations involving foreign government-connected entities in critical infrastructure sectors, civil penalties shall be not less than $1,000,000 per violation with no statutory maximum. (b) ADDITIONAL REMEDIES. Courts shall order: (1) mandatory reinstatement of displaced workers with back pay and benefits restoration; (2) a 24-month severance guarantee where reinstatement is not practicable; and (3) disqualification from federal contracts for not less than three years for willful violations. (c) CRIMINAL REFERRAL. Willful, coordinated, investor-directed, or foreign government-connected violations shall be referred for criminal prosecution under applicable federal statutes. (d) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION. Any worker or group of workers may bring a civil action for violations of this Act. Prevailing plaintiffs shall receive back pay, reinstatement, compensatory damages, punitive damages not to exceed three times compensatory damages for willful violations, and reasonable attorney's fees. --- SECTION 13. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT RESOLUTION Congress urges the consideration of a Constitutional Amendment establishing: (a) The right of every American to be considered for employment in any category of work before that work is assigned to an automated system where such assignment would eliminate human employment opportunity; (b) The right of the American people to be governed at every level by human officials individually accountable for the decisions made in their name; (c) The right of American workers not to be subjected to AI-driven surveillance, productivity coercion, algorithmic discipline, or psychological manipulation in the workplace; and (d) The prohibition on any foreign government or transnational extractive entity acquiring operational control over AI systems deployed within the United States against the interests of the American people. --- SECTION 14. EFFECTIVE DATES (a) Sections 6 (foreign government and adversary prohibitions), 9 (anti-circumvention), 11 (whistleblower and registry), and 12 (enforcement) take effect upon enactment. (b) Section 8.1 (healthcare automated denial prohibition) takes effect 180 days after enactment. (c) HACO shall be fully operational 365 days after enactment. Human-AI Collaboration Plans are required for all new AI deployments after that date. (d) Full compliance required for all existing AI deployments 730 days after enactment. --- SECTION 15. SEVERABILITY If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Act and its application to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. --- SECTION 16. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN FINANCIAL MARKET EXPLOITATION (c) ALGORITHMIC PRICE COORDINATION — PER SE VIOLATION. The use of AI systems, shared algorithmic pricing platforms, or common pricing software by competing providers of essential goods and services — where the AI produces pricing outcomes functionally equivalent to cartel price-fixing — is hereby declared a per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. § 1) and an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. § 45). The algorithm is the conspiracy. Algorithmic coordination requires no explicit agreement. (d) PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN PENSION EXTRACTION. Any AI system deployed by a fiduciary managing retirement assets that generates fee structures or trading patterns whose primary effect is to increase management compensation at the expense of beneficiary returns is hereby declared a breach of ERISA fiduciary duty (29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.) subject to civil enforcement by the Department of Labor. --- SECTION 17. PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION AND ECOLOGICAL EXTRACTION (b) PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION. No covered entity may deploy any AI system for the purpose of, or with the direct effect of: (1) Intensifying the suffering of any animal in any agricultural, research, entertainment, or commercial setting by increasing confinement density, reducing veterinary care, or eliminating behavioral enrichment primarily to reduce costs or increase financial return; (2) Optimizing factory farming operations that treat animals exclusively as production units without legally binding animal welfare standards as a co-equal constraint on the optimization function; (3) Facilitating, enabling, or concealing the illegal capture, trade, transport, or sale of any wild animal or animal product; or (4) Identifying, tracking, or targeting wild animal populations for commercial extraction beyond scientifically established sustainable yield limits. (c) PROHIBITION ON AI-DRIVEN ECOLOGICAL EXTRACTION. No covered entity may deploy any AI system for the purpose of, or with the direct effect of: (1) Optimizing resource extraction operations in ways that exceed sustainable yield limits, damage ecosystem integrity, or contaminate water systems; (2) Targeting ecologically sensitive areas, protected lands, or endangered species habitats for commercial extraction in circumvention of applicable environmental law; (3) Optimizing supply chains in ways that externalize ecological costs onto natural systems and future generations; or (4) Operating any AI system in agricultural production that systematically degrades soil health, depletes aquifers, or reduces pollinator populations at a rate exceeding the regenerative capacity of the affected ecosystem. (f) THE INTERCONNECTION PRINCIPLE. The protection of American workers, animals, and ecosystems are expressions of a single principle: life is not a resource to be extracted for financial return. The same extractive mandate that drives AI-powered workforce displacement drives AI-powered ecological destruction. This Act addresses both simultaneously. --- Introduced by: _______________________________________________ Referred to: Committee on Education and the Workforce; Committee on the Judiciary; Committee on Financial Services; Committee on Homeland Security American Worker Protection and Human-AI Collaboration Act | Cordova 2028 | cordova2028.com