The explosive growth of artificial intelligence is reshaping job creation, hiring practices, market dynamics, skills development, and economic mobility. We believe that these changes should drive economic success and quality jobs for all.
Current shifts create both opportunity and risk. While AI may support productivity and innovation, a 2023 Goldman Sachs report estimated that generative AI could automate nearly 300 million jobs globally. In 2025, McKinsey estimated that it could automate more than half of the hours worked in the U.S. economy.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work convenes stakeholders across sectors to help institutions build the capacity to adapt. Through research, convenings, and applied experimentation, the center brings cross-sector leaders together to address structural challenges, and tracks emerging AI trends to translate insight into action.
We help workforce and education practitioners improve their AI literacy and fluency, understand AI’s impact on jobs and skills, and adapt their programs and services for an AI-powered world.
We convene cross-sector partners and advance collaboration and innovation to address structural challenges brought by AI.
We track emerging AI trends, generate real-world insights, and shape the national conversation on how AI can expand opportunity.
Artificial intelligence is transforming our world—but will it make us all better off? Our call to action urges stakeholders across sectors to investigate how AI could lead to higher-quality jobs, catalyze wealth-building, and promote economic opportunity—for all of us. To ground this work, we commissioned a survey to shed light on how U.S. workers and learners perceive, use, and experience AI.
Our report offers three new resources—a framework model, industry-specific profiles, and a readiness blueprint—to anticipate coming shifts across industries and occupations, and help workers, institutions, and ecosystems prepare for AI’s impact on jobs. The bottom line: every occupation will benefit by doubling down on the uniquely human interpersonal skills that will be elevated or augmented by AI.
Interest in AI is soaring, but how can workforce practitioners leverage this technology to support people in their searches for quality jobs? This report provides frameworks for practitioners and organizations to use in identifying ways to integrate AI into their work, as well as maps the landscape of tools that exist to support these use cases.
AI is transforming education and work. This project explores how postsecondary institutions and regional leaders in the Inland Empire and Central Valley can use AI to accelerate economic mobility, especially for adult learners. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the…
AI is advancing faster than our systems. Our new blog outlines five actions policymakers can take to put workers, learners, and businesses on stronger footing. Expand RESEA to Provide Transition Assistance for Displaced Workers and…
This report examines Black Americans’ experiences with and perceptions of AI. It explores the potential ways AI could benefit the Black community and identifies actions needed to ensure that AI benefits everyone. Recognition of the…
These toolkits highlight emerging AI-driven shifts in jobs and skills, offering insights for training providers and small business leaders to support worker-centric AI adoption and workforce development strategies. This work was made possible with support…
New JFF research highlights current and potential uses for generative AI in workforce development and identifies existing tools and market opportunities. Endnotes 1 Research methods: We interviewed 36 people. The sample was made up of training…
Employers have an unparalleled opportunity to help realize the potential of AI by ensuring that all workers have the training they need. In the race to navigate the new world being reshaped by artificial intelligence…
Ben Pring is a vice president at JFF, where he leads the Center for AI & and the Future of Work. In that role, he directs JFF’s efforts to develop strategies and advance policies, practices,…
Tiffany Hsieh is a senior director in JFF’s Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work, where she helps lead the organization’s AI strategy and programs. In that role, she provides support on AI…
Cofounder, Rézme
Founder, Vestigo Partners, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Director of Trade and Economic Policy, Google
Founder and Executive Chair, The Human Trust
Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, LinkedIn
President, ASU+GSV Summit
CEO, Black in AI
Responsible AI Lead, Amazon Web Services