Workforce of the Future Act of 2025

The Workforce of the Future Act of 2025 aims to prepare the U.S. workforce for the impact of artificial intelligence and expand education in emerging and advanced technologies. It requires reports on AI's workforce effects and authorizes grants for technology education and worker training.

Title I, Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Jobs: The Secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Education must jointly prepare an interim report within 6 months, a final report within 1 year, and an updated report 3 years later. These reports must identify data needed to analyze AI's workforce impact, industries and occupations most affected, effects on job quality, opportunities for stakeholders to influence AI's impact, collaboration among educational and labor entities, demographic groups most vulnerable or advantaged, skills needed to work with AI, and methods to make those skills accessible.

Title II, Emerging and Advanced Technology Education and Workforce Development: The Secretary of Education must award grants to eligible entities (such as school districts, colleges, and labor organizations) to expand emerging and advanced technology education. Half the funds go to entities that train teachers, expand access to learning materials, and ensure all high school students have access to such education within 5 years. The other half supports other approved activities. The Secretary of Labor must award grants to eligible entities to train workers most impacted by AI, prioritizing labor organizations. Grants serve individuals employed in or recently separated from industries with high AI growth, providing training for high-skill, high-wage jobs. Grantees must report data on participants twice yearly. Within 5 years, the Secretaries must report to Congress on program expansion. The bill also amends the Education Sciences Reform Act to include data on emerging and advanced technology education in elementary and secondary schools.