How Fixing Immigration Can Improve Competition and Create Opportunities for the US AI Workforce
The White House’s recently released AI Action Plan aims to secure U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence by abolishing red tape and fostering innovation, AI adoption, infrastructure building, and domestic chip manufacturing. To equip and develop the future AI workforce, it pledges public investments in research labs, manufacturing, and technical training programs, as well as tax incentives for businesses to upskill workers and funding cuts to states whose laws unduly hamper AI.
These policies share the commendable goal of creating jobs and uplifting U.S. workers’ living standards, while ensuring that American innovation leads the world. But they’ll be less effective in meeting these objectives without fixing the nation’s broken immigration system, whose deep-seated flaws favor neither America’s economy nor its workers.