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TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT NOTICE NO. 06-25 DATEFebruary 10 2026 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WASHINGTON D.C. 20210 TO STATE WORKFORC E AGENCIES STA TE WORKFORCE ADMINISTRATORS STA TE WORKFORCE LIAISONS STA TE AND LO CAL W CHAIRS AND DIRECTORS LABOR COMMISSIONERS AMERICAN JOB CENTERS ALL ETA GRANTEES COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND TRIBAL COLLEGES STATE APPRENTICESHIP AGENCIES JOB CORPS CENTERS STA TE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES STATE CTE DIRECTORS STATE EDUCATION COMMISSIONERS FROM HENRY MACK E D.D. s Assistant Secretary TAYLOR STOCKTON s Chief Innovation Officer SUBJECT The U.S. Department of Labor s Artificial Intelligence Literacy Framework 1.Purpose. To issue the U.S. Department of Labor s DOL or Department Artificial Intelligence AI Literacy Framework as a resource for program design and encourage expanded AI literacy training across the public workforce and education systems. 2.Action Requested. DOL encourages the public workforce and education systems and its partners to expand AI education and training opportunities and to utilize the AI Literacy Framework as a resource for program design. Joint and collaborative engagement across these sectors is critical to the future of talent development and the reindustrialization of America. 3.Summary and Background. a.Summary DOL releases the attached AI Literacy Framework which provides a working definition for AI literacy a detailed set of foundational content areas of AI literacy and effective delivery principles for AI education and skill development training. b.Background As described in the reports America s Talent Strategy Building the Workforce for the Golden Age and Winning the Race America s AI Action Plan DOL is committed to prioritizing AI literacy and skill development across the workforce and 2 education systems. In support of this commitment and in response to Executive Order 14277 Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth on August 26 2025 DOL issued Training and Employment Guidance Letter TEGL 03-25 Encouraging the Use of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Funding to Help Youth and Adults Develop Artificial Intelligence Skills. TEGL 03-25 presents ways for the public workforce system to provide youth and adults with AI skills that will enable them to access career pathways in an AI-driven economy. In TEGL 03-25 DOL proposed preliminary components of AI literacy including foundational content areas and effective delivery practices of AI literacy to assist the public workforce system with identifying comprehensive AI education and training opportunities that prepare workers with in-demand AI skills. In parallel the U.S. Department of Education ED took two actions prioritizing AI education in July 2025 releasing a Dear Colleague Letter with guidance on using AI to improve education outcomes and announcing a Secretary s supplemental grantmaking priority of advancing AI in education. With this Training and Employment Notice DOL releases the attached AI Literacy Framework expanding upon the foundational content areas and principles for effective delivery of AI literacy activities that were articulated in TEGL 03-25 and complementing ED guidance on advancing AI literacy efforts. 4. The U.S. Department of Labor s AI Literacy Framework. The attached AI Literacy Framework provides voluntary guidance to support the evaluation of high-quality AI literacy content and its effective integration into education and workforce systems to help accelerate AI skill development for American youth students faculty and teachers job seekers and workers across the country. The framework defines AI literacy offers considerations for the various audiences of the framework requests feedback from users as the framework evolves and provides details and examples for each of the foundational content areas and delivery principles. The framework also incorporates strategies for addressing prerequisites to AI literacy such as digital literacy skills. As mentioned in TEGL 03-25 the Department maintains a Competency Model Clearinghouse that provides competency models that describe the skills necessary to educate and train a globally competitive workforce. The Clearinghouse provides dynamic models of the foundational and technical competencies for economically vital industries and sectors of the American economy as well as a broadly applicable model of competencies called the Building Blocks Model. DOL anticipates continuing to update these models to reflect evolving digital and AI competency requirements in the workplace and classroom alike and encourages users to utilize both the new AI Literacy Framework as well as the broader competency frameworks on the Clearinghouse. 5. Inquiries. Please direct inquiries to the appropriate Regional Office. 3 6. References. TEGL 03-25 Encouraging the Use of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Funding to Help Youth and Adults Develop Artificial Intelligence Skills issued August 26 2025 https www.dol.gov agencies eta advisories tegl-03-25 Executive Order 14277 Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth issued April 23 2025 https www.whitehouse.gov presidential- actions 2025 04 advancing-artificial-intelligence-education-for-american-youth America s Talent Strategy Building the Workforce for the Golden Age https www.dol.gov sites dolgov files OPA newsreleases 2025 08 Americas-Talent- Strategy-Building-the-Workforce-for-the-Golden-Age.pdf Winning the Race America s AI Action Plan https www.whitehouse.gov wp- content uploads 2025 07 Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf Dear Colleague Letter Guidance on the Use of Federal Grant Funds to Improve Education Outcomes Using Artificial Intelligence AI issued July 22 2025 https www.ed.gov media document opepd-ai-dear-colleague-letter-7222025- 110427.pdf and Proposed Priority and Definitions Secretary s Supplemental Priority and Definitions on Advancing Artificial Intelligence in Education issued July 21 2025 https www.federalregister.gov documents 2025 07 21 2025-13650 proposed- priority-and-definitions-secretarys-supplemental-priority-and-definitions-on- advancing. 7. Attachment s . Attachment I U.S. Department of Labor s AI Literacy Framework Attachment II U.S. Department of Labor s AI Literacy Framework Graphic