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New York Launches FutureWorks Commission to Guide AI’s Workforce Impact

The panel will advise Gov. Kathy Hochul on policies to help employees use AI as a tool.

Overview

  • Empire State Development will roll out an AI workforce program to train low-income New Yorkers and connect them with internships and jobs at New York tech companies.
  • The agency will also work through Entrepreneurship Assistance Centers to provide AI training for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
  • The commission includes AI experts, workers’ advocates and business leaders who will advise the governor directly.
  • Hochul said the group will deliver recommendations that can be implemented by executive action, agency policy or in the next state budget, though no deadline was set.
  • Comptroller Tom DiNapoli separately asked 100 pension fund companies to disclose how AI is changing jobs, with firms such as Visa, Morgan Stanley, IBM and Verizon seeking meetings.