Last week, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which includes policy goals across three pillars – Pillar 1: Accelerate AI Innovation; Pillar 2: Build American AI Infrastructure; and Pillar III: Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security. In the document’s preamble, President Trump states “Today, a new frontier of scientific discovery lies before us, defined by transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence… Breakthroughs in these fields have the potential to reshape the global balance of power, spark entirely new industries, and revolutionize the way we live and work. As our global competitors race to exploit these technologies, it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. To secure our future, we must harness the full power of American innovation.”
The plan recognizes the need to transform the American workforce to help workers navigate the transition, calling on federal agencies to prioritize AI literacy and skill development as a core objective of relevant education and workforce funding streams, including career and technical education, workforce training, apprenticeships, and other federally funded/supported skills initiatives. This is a critical issue that Littler WPI in partnership with the National Association of State Chambers (NASC), a national organization of executive leadership at state chambers, is actively engaged in through our Workforce Transformation Coalition, created to advance comprehensive federal and state policy and programmatic agendas to strengthen workforce competitiveness given advances in AI, robotics, and other technological advances.