H.R. 10578: Artificial Intelligence Data Authorization and Transparency Act

This bill would direct the federal government to collect and publish more detailed data about how artificial intelligence and automation affect jobs, wages, and worker behavior in the United States.

What it would require agencies to do

• Monthly job-market survey: The Labor Department would have to run a recurring monthly survey of employers about job openings, hiring, layoffs, quits, and other labor turnover measures. The results would be broken out by industry, occupation, and geographic area, and designed to help measure how technology changes labor demand.
• Recurring household survey: The Labor Department would also have to conduct a recurring household survey on how people spend their time across work, caregiving, household tasks, education, and other activities. This survey would include information useful for understanding how digital tools and emerging technologies are being used at work.
• Long-term worker tracking: The Labor Department would have to run longitudinal surveys that follow workers over time to study employment, earnings, job changes, education, training, and similar outcomes. These surveys would be intended to show the longer-term effects of artificial intelligence on job stability, retraining, and economic mobility.
• Business survey updates: The Census Bureau would need to add questions and analysis to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey to measure how businesses are adopting artificial intelligence and related technologies, and how that adoption affects hiring, layoffs, job openings, demand for certain occupations, and business operations.
• Annual federal report: The Labor Department and Commerce Department would have to publish an annual report on how artificial intelligence and related technologies are affecting the U.S. workforce. The report would combine data from several federal sources and analyze effects on hiring, separations, job openings, skill needs, earnings, mobility, and training patterns.

Data publication and timing

• The monthly employer survey data would be published through the nationwide workforce and labor market information system.
• The household survey results would be published annually through that same system.
• The Business Trends and Outlook Survey data on AI would be published quarterly.
• The long-term worker surveys would be publicly reported annually, and new survey cohorts would start every 10 years.

Funding

• The bill authorizes specific funding for these new surveys and data efforts, including:
  • $8 million per year for the monthly labor market flow survey;
  • $5 million per year for the time-use and labor force participation survey;
  • $20 million per year for the longitudinal labor market survey;
  • Such sums as necessary for the business survey changes and the annual AI workforce report.

Duration

• The new Business Trends and Outlook Survey AI reporting requirement would end 10 years after enactment.
• The annual AI workforce report authority would also end after 10 years.

Practical effect

In plain terms, the bill is mostly a data-collection and reporting measure. It would not directly regulate artificial intelligence use by employers or workers. Instead, it would create more federal statistics and reports to help policymakers and the public understand how AI and automation are changing jobs, hiring, training, and pay over time.

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