Sen. Peters Introduces Bill to Create National AI Workforce Standards and Career Paths
People working in non-traditional employment or making career changes into tech could benefit from frameworks that explicitly recognize nontraditional backgrounds. By mapping transferable skills and alternative credentials, the frameworks could help gig workers demonstrate their qualifications for AI and tech roles without a four-year degree.
“information for how individuals with nontechnical or other nontraditional backgrounds and education may utilize their skills for such frameworks' roles and tasks”
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Senate Bill 1290, the Artificial Intelligence and Critical Technology Workforce Framework Act, tasks NIST with developing national workforce frameworks for AI and critical technologies that define roles, skills, and knowledge needed for these jobs, building on the NICE framework.
Introduced by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), S. 1290 would expand NIST functions to include workforce frameworks for critical and emerging technologies, requiring an AI workforce framework and periodic updates to the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity.
The AI and Critical Technology Workforce Framework Act directs NIST to develop a framework defining AI jobs and the skills necessary to perform them. It focuses on ensuring frameworks are useful for individuals from nontraditional backgrounds and education.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Artificial Intelligence and Critical Technology Workforce Framework Act of 2025
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