About Skills Shift AI
Skills Shift AI is a national workforce intelligence platform that provides task- and skills-level insight into how artificial intelligence is reshaping work across industries.
The platform helps organizations understand how tasks evolve within roles, how skills transfer across jobs, and how workforce decisions can be made with greater foresight and confidence.
Skills Shift AI supports employers, workforce development organizations, policymakers, and researchers who are navigating workforce change and need clear, evidence-informed insight into how work is actually shifting.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support organizations and workers as they navigate workforce change with clarity, transparency, and human agency.
As artificial intelligence transforms how work is performed, we believe people deserve insight into how tasks are shifting, which skills remain essential, and how opportunity pathways can expand rather than narrow.
We focus on how decisions at the task and skills level accumulate into broader impacts on training alignment, job quality, and workforce mobility over time.
Skills Shift AI supports informed and responsible workforce decision making that balances innovation with long-term resilience.
Why We Built This
Job titles rarely tell the full story. They do not reflect what people can actually do, which skills they already possess, or where they can realistically move next as work evolves.
Skills Shift AI was built to move beyond static job labels and provide task-level insight into how work is changing.
Skills Shift AI operates as an applied workforce intelligence and learning lab, supporting research, scenario testing, and guided pilots for workforce planning and policy design.
The platform supports:
- A human-centered understanding of AI's impact on work and skills
- Skill-based mobility and transition pathway modeling
- Advisory engagements for workforce planning and strategy
- Guided pilots for organizations testing AI-informed workforce approaches
A National Foundation Designed for Local Adaptation
Skills Shift AI is intentionally designed as a national foundational workforce intelligence resource.
This structure enables states, cities, workforce systems, and enterprises to access workforce intelligence through facilitated partnerships rather than turnkey deployment, supporting consistent research-backed insights alongside local context and human-led interpretation.
Governance and Principles
Skills Shift AI is designed as a public interest workforce intelligence platform. While the organization operates as a private entity, its design and stewardship are guided by principles that prioritize transparency, accountability, and human agency.
These principles inform how the platform is built, how insights are presented, and how Skills Shift AI is applied across workforce systems.
Transparency by Design
Insights are explainable and interpretable. Assumptions and methods are made clear so organizations can understand how conclusions are reached.
Human Agency
The platform supports informed decision making. It does not automate or replace human judgment.
Equity and Access
Workforce intelligence should expand opportunity and mobility rather than reinforce existing barriers.
Responsible Use
Skills Shift AI is designed for planning, analysis, and strategy. It is not intended for surveillance, worker scoring, or punitive evaluation.
Adaptability and Stewardship
The platform is built to evolve alongside labor markets, policy environments, and societal needs over time.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is being formed to provide strategic guidance and ensure the platform remains grounded in real-world workforce, policy, and equity considerations as it evolves.
Advisory council members do not hold fiduciary responsibility and do not govern operations. Their role is to inform responsible design, real-world application, and long-term workforce impact.
Advisory Areas
- Workforce systems and policy
- Employer and HR leadership
- Labor market research and economics
- Equity and worker advocacy
- Applied AI and data ethics
The advisory council is forming and will expand over time.
Looking Ahead
We are building toward a future where:
- Workers can understand their potential and options
- Workforce organizations can support people using AI-aware tools
- Training systems stay aligned to evolving skills
- Regions can develop customized versions of the platform
- AI becomes a pathway to mobility rather than a barrier
Skills Shift AI is intended to serve as a national foundation for that future.
Interested in a Research Partnership?
We partner with organizations, policymakers, and researchers through guided pilots, exploratory analysis, and custom research engagements.