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The bill increases transparency and provides standardized annual data on how AI affects work—benefiting workers, employers, and policymakers—while raising privacy/proprietary risks for firms and imposing additional cost and complexity on the BLS.
Workers (including tech workers), middle-class families, and unemployed workers will get annual, task- and employment-level data showing how AI and related technologies affect job tasks, productivity, scheduling, pay, and employment stability, helping inform career decisions and bargaining.
Researchers and policymakers (including state governments) will receive consistent, machine-readable labor statistics over time—because of required methodological consistency and data formats—enabling systematic analysis of technology impacts and better-informed policy design.
The public gains greater transparency: the Bureau of Labor Statistics must publicly disclose material changes and report to Congressional committees if the supplement is not published on time, improving accountability to taxpayers and governments.
Private-sector companies and tech workers may face privacy and proprietary risks because collecting detailed information about covered technologies could require granular operational data that firms consider sensitive.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will likely face increased workload and costs to comply with expanded survey content and annual reporting, potentially diverting resources or requiring additional funding from taxpayers.
Broad definitions that classify technologies as 'covered' even without full automation could capture many tools, making survey design complex and producing ambiguous or hard-to-interpret results for some occupations and analysts.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires BLS to publish an annual Contingent Work Supplement to the CPS including data on covered technologies such as AI, with methodological consistency and machine-readable results.
Official title: To require the Bureau of Labor Statistics to publish the Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey on an annual basis and to include information on certain technologies in such supplement.
Introduced September 3, 2026 by Nicholas J. Begich · Last progress September 3, 2026
Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to add and publish an annual Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey that collects information about workers and contingent work with specific questions on covered technologies, including artificial intelligence. The law directs BLS to keep methodology consistent across years, publicly disclose material changes, provide results in machine-readable formats, and report to Congress if the supplement is not published as required. Defines "covered technologies" functionally (including AI as defined at 15 U.S.C. 9401(3)) and clarifies that partial automation does not exclude a technology from being covered. The supplement must begin with the first CPS released after enactment and be produced annually thereafter.