Sponsor
Tim Walberg
Representative · R-MI
Representative · R-MI
The bill creates standardized AI adoption metrics and a single legal definition to help workers, employers, researchers, and policymakers plan and respond to AI-driven labor changes, but it raises trade-offs around worker privacy, implementation costs, reporting burdens, measurement reliability, and possible gaps or inflexibility in scope.
Workers, educators, and workforce trainers gain standardized, government-backed data on AI adoption that helps design targeted training and reskilling programs for people facing AI-driven job changes.
Policymakers, state and local governments get improved labor-market measurement and evidence about AI trends, supporting better-informed workforce-development, retraining, and employment projection decisions.
Employers and workers receive clearer information on AI adoption and task changes that can help firms plan staffing and workers adjust skills to avoid displacement.
Workers face privacy and surveillance risks from collection of detailed worker- and employer-level AI data that could be misused or expose sensitive workplace information.
Expanding BLS measurement and implementing new surveys will impose federal costs or require reallocation of agency resources, potentially increasing taxpayer burdens or diverting funds from other programs.
If data collection is uneven across industries or firms, workers in less-surveyed sectors may receive less timely support, worsening unequal job impacts from AI for lower-income or hard-to-reach workers.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires the BLS to collect and publish a monthly statistic on 'usage of artificial intelligence' using the NAIIA definition, beginning within 18 months.
Official title: To direct the Bureau of Labor Statistics to report on the usage of artificial intelligence in the workplace.
Introduced June 22, 2026 by Tim Walberg · Last progress June 22, 2026
Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to add a monthly statistic for the "usage of artificial intelligence" to its routine data collection and reporting, using the AI definition from the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020. BLS must begin collecting these AI-usage statistics within 18 months of the law taking effect to improve labor market analysis of AI’s effects on jobs, wages, tasks, hiring, and training.