The U.S. Department of Labor is committed to ensuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) is designed, deployed and used to maximize its benefits to workers and minimize its risks to workers’ wellbeing. This page describes the Department’s work on AI, including under President Biden’s Executive Order the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence and Worker Wellbeing: Principles and Best Practices for Developers and Employers
The Department released AI Principles and Best Practices as guidelines, tailored for the workplace, for developers and employers to promote high-road practices today and in the future. The Principles and Best Practices provide a roadmap to enhance AI’s potential to improve workers’ well-being and expand opportunities for businesses while minimizing AI’s risks to workers’ civil rights, job quality, autonomy, privacy, and workplace rights. They aim to ensure that all workers have an equal opportunity to share in the benefits of AI.
How DOL is Using AI
The Department is championing the deployment of responsible and trustworthy AI within our agency’s programs and operations.
- DOL AI Compliance Plan (PDF)
- Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory (CSV)
- Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory
- Empowering workers with AI: A union-partner approach
- How OCIO is Using AI to Enrich (Not Replace) Jobs
- Introducing Artificial Intelligence Adjudicator Assistance (AIAA): A Research Initiative Exploring Ways to Streamline Work for Adjudicators
Artificial Intelligence and Equal Employment Opportunity for Federal Contractors
The Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has developed a guide, Artificial Intelligence and Equal Employment Opportunity for Federal Contractors, for federal contractors and subcontractors. The guide answers questions and shares promising practices to clarify federal contractors’ legal obligations enforced by OFCCP, promote equal employment opportunity, and mitigate the potentially harmful impacts of AI in employment decisions.
Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems in the Workplace under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Federal Labor Standards
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has issued a Field Assistance Bulletin to provide guidance regarding the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act and other federal labor standards as employers increasingly use artificial intelligence and other automated technologies in the workplace.
Additional resources
Executive Order 14110
To advance a coordinated Federal Government-wide approach to AI, President Biden Read about high road training programs that prepare America’s infrastructure, clean energy and manufacturing workforce for good jobs.
Joint Statement on Enforcement of Civil Rights, Fair Competition, Consumer Protection, and Equal Opportunity Laws in Automated Systems
The Department of Labor has joined other federal departments in emphasizing that existing legal authorities apply to the use of automated systems and new technologies as they apply to other practices.
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Workers
Under Acting Secretary Julie Su’s leadership, the Labor Department has committed to ensuring that AI, in any workplace, must be developed and used responsibly to improve workers’ lives, positively augment human work and help all people safely enjoy the benefits of technological innovation.
Artificial Intelligence & Inclusive Hiring Framework
This Framework, developed by the Office of Disability Employment Policy through the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology, supports the inclusive use of AI in employers’ hiring technology to increase benefits for disabled job seekers. The framework helps employers reduce the risks of unintentional discrimination and barriers to accessibility with AI hiring technologies.