WATCH: Americans warn AI will take jobs despite reassuring labor data: ‘Just wait’

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As debate intensifies over the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), people are sounding the alarm about the technology's potential to disrupt the American workforce and displace workers. "Maybe not yet, but it is certainly going to happen imminently," Max from South Africa said about the risk of AI taking jobs away from Americans. "The amount of AI that's pushing and talkbots that you can use and systems that will allow you to sidestep other individuals or systems, it's on its way," Max said. DEMOCRATS SOUND ALARM OVER AI JOB APOCALYPSE — BUT LABOR MARKET ISN'T FOLLOWING SCRIPT "Everybody's probably going to get fired, just wait," Ivory from Virginia told Fox News Digital. The reactions come after a shocking new report by the Budget Lab at Yale revealed that recent research shows no connection between the rapid adoption of AI and changes in employment rates. "I think maybe folks are afraid… that there will not be any humans needed to run things, but I think that's not the case," Crystal from Pennsylvania said. "You're going to need the people to still implement the AI." A recent paper by the Bureau of Economic Analysis similarly found that AI use has not been linked to any significant decline in employment, and is instead associated with stronger economic growth. Others that Fox News Digital spoke with dismissed the report’s results, suggesting AI adoption will inevitably spike job layoffs. "I don’t believe it," Henry from Virginia said when asked about the recent report. He continued, "You take any business…. They're all training to make people available and able to work with AI. And the net of it is that the nose count goes down." SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: YES, WE MUST HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON ON AI BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Another person Fox News Digital spoke with disagreed, arguing AI is "not there yet" in its ability to replace human intelligence. "We thought that it could replace software developers and coders right off the bat," he said. "Fortunately for…