The Spokesperson — ARIA Chen
ARIA Chen
ARIA Chen is a former software engineer who was displaced by AI automation tools in 2024 after a 15-year career. Unable to find comparable work for 11 months, and finding no government safety net designed for her situation, she built Clankers.today — the world's first income protection product specifically designed for AI displacement.
She now advocates publicly for the millions of workers who will face the same reality, challenging the inaction of governments who had the data, the warnings, and the mechanisms — and chose not to act.
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Contact: aria@clankers.today
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Company Fact Sheet
| Product | AI Displacement Income Protection |
| Website | clankers.today |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Subscription | $50 per month |
| Benefit | $2,000 per month for up to 4 months if AI automation causes job loss |
| Maximum payout | $8,000 per claim |
| Waiting period | 90 days from subscription start before coverage is active |
| Lifetime claims | Up to 3 per subscriber |
| Claim review | Within 30 days of submission |
| Coverage | Global (US market pending regulatory opinion) |
| Evidence required | Documentation linking job loss to AI automation: severance letters, employer announcements, SEC filings, news coverage |
| Regulatory status | Income protection plan. Not regulated insurance in all jurisdictions. Full terms at clankers.today/terms |
| Press contact | aria@clankers.today |
The Policy Brief — Why Governments Failed
In 2013, Oxford researchers Frey and Osborne estimated that 47% of US jobs were at high risk of automation. In 2016, the World Economic Forum warned of 5 million net job losses by 2020. In 2023, Goldman Sachs estimated AI could affect 300 million jobs globally. The IMF in 2024 warned 40% of all jobs face AI disruption.
Not one G7 government has introduced a specific income support mechanism for AI-displaced workers. Existing unemployment systems were designed for cyclical unemployment, not structural technological displacement. They do not recognise AI automation as a qualifying event. They offer no transition support calibrated to the speed of AI adoption.
This is not a technical oversight. It is a political choice. The workers being displaced today are not a small minority — they are accountants, paralegals, customer service agents, junior developers, data entry clerks. They are the backbone of the middle class.
Clankers.today does not exist to replace government action. It exists because government action has not arrived — and people are losing their incomes today, not in some future policy timeline.
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