U.S. Department of Labor

The U.S. Department of Labor appears in Bytes: Week in Review - Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation through a free AI literacy course meant to make workers “AI ready.” The course is presented as a text-message program that can be completed in about a week, with short lessons on generative AI, prompting, and large language models.

The source uses the department to ground AI Worker Literacy as a public-policy response to worker anxiety. The course can make AI less mysterious, but Maria Curi stresses that it cannot by itself prevent layoffs, job displacement, or companies’ speculative use of AI productivity claims.

Connections

• AI Worker Literacy - main concept grounded by the source.
• AI Literacy Against Worship - broader public AI literacy frame this course qualifies.
• AI Backlash Politics - political setting around jobs, children, data centers, and regulation.
• College Career Preparation and Human Judgment Under AI - adjacent worker-preparation and judgment themes.