AI DATA Act

Key Points

• The bill requires the Labor Department to run a monthly survey tracking job openings, hiring, layoffs, and quits, with data broken down by industry, occupation, and location. The survey must be detailed enough to measure how AI and automation are changing which jobs are in demand.
• A new household survey would measure how people split their time between work, caregiving, education, and other activities, and whether digital tools and AI are changing those patterns. Results would be published every year.
• The Labor Department would launch long-term studies that follow the same groups of workers over many years, tracking earnings, job stability, retraining, and career changes. New groups would be started every 10 years to keep the data current.
• The Census Bureau would add AI-related questions to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey, and the Labor and Commerce Departments would publish a joint annual report on how AI is affecting jobs, skills, pay, and hiring across industries. Both of these provisions expire after 10 years.
• The bill is bipartisan, introduced by Senators Kelly, Banks, and Young. It authorizes spending but does not set a specific dollar amount, leaving funding decisions to future appropriations bills.