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Emanuel Cleaver II

U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district

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while the field of artificial intelligence is evolving quickly and has potential to disrupt jobs, there are opportunities to prepare the American workforce to develop and work alongside this new technology and mitigate the potential negative consequences of job displacement

Emanuel Cleaver II

U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district

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In December 2025, Cleaver introduced the Workforce of the Future Act of 2025 (H.R. 6621), whose sense-of-Congress section states that while artificial intelligence is evolving quickly and has potential to disrupt jobs, there are opportunities to prepare the American workforce to develop and work alongside it and to mitigate the potential negative consequences of job displacement.

U.S. Representative for Missouri's 5th Congressional District and sponsor of H.R. 6621December 11, 2025H.R. 6621, Workforce of the Future Act of 2025, introduced version

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Sec. 202. Definitions. Sec. 203. Department of Education grants. Sec. 204. Department of Labor grants. Sec. 205. Reporting requirements. Sec. 206. Amendments to the Education Sciences Reform Act. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) while the field of artificial intelligence is evolving quickly and has potential to disrupt jobs, there are opportunities to prepare the American workforce to develop and work alongside this new technology and mitigate the potential negative consequences of job displacement; and (2) to ensure these opportunities, it is imperative to identify the following: (A) Data and data access necessary to properly analyze the impact of artificial intelligence on the United States workforce.

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  • This is the text of a bill Cleaver sponsored, not words he is shown to have spoken; it is evidence of what he introduced, not of his own phrasing.
  • The bill was introduced with four original cosponsors named in its own introduction line (Reps. McIver, Larson of Connecticut, Goldman of New York, and Norton), so the sense-of-Congress language is jointly put forward.

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As AI technology continues to expand and touch all areas of our lives, from social media, medicine, traffic management, airport security, retail inventory, to online lending, and education, it is imperative that policy makers carefully attempt to balance policies and regulations that mitigate social and ethical risks while providing an environment that allows for and supports innovation in industries such as yours

Emanuel Cleaver II

U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district

From a joint letter. Not individually spoken.

In a November 2017 letter to the Internet Association — nine years before this record was published — Cleaver and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman wrote that policy makers should carefully balance policies and regulations that mitigate AI's social and ethical risks with an environment that supports innovation.

U.S. Representative for Missouri's 5th Congressional DistrictPublished November 20, 2017 · date of remarks not establishedPress release from Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman's office quoting a joint Cleaver-Watson Coleman letter to the Internet Association

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… urging the organization to stop the spread of racial and gender bias through technology and adopt practices and policies to hold members accountable when it comes to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The letter is here. “As AI technology continues to expand and touch all areas of our lives, from social media, medicine, traffic management, airport security, retail inventory, to online lending, and education, it is imperative that policy makers carefully attempt to balance policies and regulations that mitigate social and ethical risks while providing an environment that allows for and supports innovation in industries such as yours,” the letter states. Cleaver and Watson Coleman are asking that the Internet Association respond to the following questions: • Is there a process in your association to review, test, share, and manage member datasets, algorithms or

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  • AGE: this is a November 2017 statement, nine years old at close. It predates the public release of ChatGPT and the current generation of AI systems, and nothing here establishes Cleaver's position today; no later-position search was run.
  • The quoted sentence is text from a letter jointly written by Cleaver and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, not a statement Cleaver made in his own voice; the release's separate Cleaver quotation is a different sentence.

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