About
Why I Started Voice For Change
“Like any grassroots movement, it usually starts with a single voice into the void.”
- Kevin Bihan-Poudec, Founder
I created Voice For Change Foundation to ensure that artificial intelligence does not quietly rewrite the rules of work and opportunity without public input. My guiding framework, The Economic & AI North Star (2025–2035), outlines how AI can be used to strengthen the workforce in the United States rather than erase it and why this decade represents a narrow but real window to get governance right.
I am currently leveraging artificial intelligence and applied data analysis to surface real-time labor-market signals that traditional indicators often lag or overlook—particularly within white-collar, high-skill, and contract-based employment. This work focuses on hiring friction, income volatility, prolonged job-finding durations, and the structural shift toward short-term and nontraditional work arrangements as automation and AI adoption accelerate. By synthesizing publicly available data, market signals, and qualitative labor dynamics, I aim to provide descriptive, ground-level insights that help contextualize macroeconomic narratives—especially in periods where headline employment figures may mask underlying stress in hiring-led labor markets.
More recently, my research has focused on the accelerating operational capabilities of advanced AI systems and the growing gap between automation speed and human governance. Central to this work is the concept of Meaningful Human Control (MHC) —a governance principle that emphasizes human authority over where, how, and for how long AI systems are deployed, rather than relying on symbolic “human-in-the-loop” oversight. This research examines how decision authority is quietly shifting away from workers and institutions as AI systems execute tasks faster than humans can meaningfully intervene. I am actively translating these findings into concrete policy guidance and engaging directly with Members of Congress and congressional committees to encourage enforceable standards that preserve human accountability, worker protections, and democratic control as AI adoption accelerates.
In parallel, my work also engages with international AI governance, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, by sharing early workforce signals observed in the U.S. as AI scales across employment systems. Through non-binding, implementation-level submissions to the European Commission, I aim to support post-market monitoring and oversight practices that anticipate workforce impacts before they become systemic.
I’m Kevin Bihan-Poudec, an AI ethics advocate, data analyst, and French immigrant who has called the United States home for over 15 years. With more than a decade of experience in data analytics, I have recently witnessed firsthand the rapid rise of artificial intelligence—its capacity to drive efficiency and innovation, but also its unregulated impact on workers, hiring systems, and economic stability.
My personal experience navigating for the past two years a saturated job market shaped by automation and AI-driven hiring systems led me to launch the Voice For Change Foundation: a nonprofit dedicated to protecting workers, promoting ethical AI governance, and ensuring technology serves people rather than replaces them. This work has since been examined in a Harvard Business School research paper on AI-driven job displacement and systems-level policy responses, underscoring the limits of reskilling alone when governance frameworks lag behind technological adoption.
Through public advocacy, podcasting, global outreach, and AI-powered policy research, I have engaged with U.S. and international leaders—including the White House on the need for international AI coordination, the French Élysée under President Emmanuel Macron on a Global AI Ethics Charter, and members of Congress through my March 2024 open letter “Act Now” aimed at the U.S. Congress urging stronger protections for the American workforce in the face of AI disruption and to push for a more equitable and ethical AI future.
Beyond direct outreach, my advocacy work spans a wide range of actionable solutions: proposing people-first AI governance frameworks, addressing the socioeconomic divide created by automation, developing workforce impact mitigation strategies, advancing climate-focused AI research, and exploring long-term economic stabilization tools—from responsible automation to sustainable energy innovation. Across all initiatives, the mission remains consistent: to ensure AI supports broad-based prosperity and economic resilience, rather than the concentration of wealth among the few and systemic workforce displacement.
But this platform isn’t about one voice alone. Meaningful change is collective. Voice For Change Foundation exists to bring workers, policymakers, and communities into the conversation—to demand transparency, accountability, and dignity in the age of intelligent systems, and to #ActNowOnAI so that technological progress strengthens opportunity instead of undermining it.