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Tim Ryan, who represented the Mahoning Valley in the U.S. House for 20 years, was among 20 people named to the Commission on AI and the Future of the American Workforce.
Created by the American Enterprise Institute and the Urban Institute, the commission plans to assess how artificial intelligence is reshaping jobs, skills, benefits and earnings. It also seeks to develop practical policy options to help workers, employers and governments adapt.
The committee is co-chaired by Republican Paul Ryan, a former speaker of the U.S. House, and Democrat Gina Raimondo, a former U.S. secretary of commerce and Rhode Island governor.
Many of the other committee members are academics and top officials with various foundations, institutes and organizations.
The commission formally launched June 11 with Elisabeth Jacobs, executive director of WorkRise at the Urban Institute, and Brent Orrell, AEI's senior fellow, serving as co-directors. A research team composed of those working in the fields of macroeconomics and labor economics, AI development and technology, AI regulation, labor market information systems, skills and training, public benefits and social insurance, business practices and place-based impacts is advising the commissioners.
Ryan said: "I'm honored to be invited to join this distinguished bipartisan commission with my old friends from Congress, Speaker Paul Ryan and Secretary Gina Raimondo. AI is proving to be one of the most challenging policy issues America and the world will have to deal with in the coming decades."
Ryan added: "Bipartisan solutions must be in place so America has a predictable framework to harness all the benefits of AI to improve health, education and economic growth for both businesses and workers. As a commissioner, I want to make sure workers, manufacturers and communities have a real voice in this conversation as we develop policies that will shape the future of the American workforce."
Ryan has worked as a consultant since leaving Congress at the end of 2022, after losing a Senate race to Republican J.D. Vance by 6.1%. Ryan has advocated primarily for the natural gas industry and cryptocurrency through his Celtic Consulting firm.
Last month, Ryan opened Unlikely Majorities, a consulting firm that touts to run "campaigns that make politically and culturally impossible possible."
Ryan is maintaining some clients through Celtic, but said Unlikely Majorities is his main focus.