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Sonderling on Preparing Workers for the AI Jobs of the Future, Jul. 24, 2025

July 24, 2025 · U.S. Department of Labor · 0:01:11

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What happened

Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling described the Department of Labor’s AI workforce work in a department message released on July 24, 2025. He stated that within President Trump’s first 100 days, the President signed an executive order around AI literacy that requires the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the National Science Foundation to come together to identify the systemic challenges within the education system and the workforce training system — to make sure U.S. workers get the first opportunities at AI jobs, with the underlying baseline skills those jobs require, as he framed it.

Sonderling said the department is working with employers in the United States, asking them to identify where the jobs are going — what the AI jobs of the future are — and how the American worker can benefit by being trained for them, as he described the effort.

Why it matters

The statement is the Labor Department’s piece of the administration’s AI literacy order as its Deputy Secretary described it: an interagency brief shared with Education and the National Science Foundation, run through employer demand — train workers for the AI jobs employers say are coming, with first opportunity for U.S. workers.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the AI literacy executive order’s interagency workforce work as Sonderling described it on July 24, 2025. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, “Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling: We’re Ensuring Our Workers Are Prepared for AI Jobs of the Future” (Jul. 24, 2025, embedded above; remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary Sonderling).