President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a government review of artificial intelligence models before they are released, reversing his administration’s hands-off approach. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, from a famously laissez-faire state, has announced his support for legislation moving through Florida’s legislature to protect consumers from rising electricity prices resulting from new data centers. They are responding to increasing concerns about both AI safety and data centers. Yet a new Milken Institute-Harris Poll finds Americans feel left behind on the issue that matters most: jobs. A whopping 80% say they want the government to start preparing workforce transition programs now. Sixty-eight% feel they are navigating the AI transition entirely alone.
Remarkably, business agrees. Eighty-eight percent of business leaders say individual companies cannot solve for AI workforce readiness alone and that a coordinated national response is required. The people deploying the technology and the people living with it have reached the same conclusion. Washington has not caught up.
