The institutional shift is that AI displacement is being discussed as a fiscal obligation before the labor shock has fully arrived. Warner's warning gives public officials permission to talk about worker supports in advance, but the grassroots response treats that permission as overdue: unemployment insurance, retirement-age relief, and direct assistance are already the terms of the demand [1][3]. The policy winner is any actor that can attach a funding mechanism to AI growth; the loser is the politician still treating job loss as a future education problem.