As AI will be staying here, representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Shontel Brown (D-OH) have introduced the bill to ensure that more US federal employees are properly trained to use it.
The 2025 AI Training Extension Method introduced last week by MACE and Brown is not a new idea. The federal government is training employees to work with AI for some time under the 2022 Artificial Intelligence Training in the Acquired Labor Force Act (PDF).
The law created an AI training regime for program managers and workers focusing on procurement and logistics, and for program managers and workers focusing on institutional discretion.
The AI Training Extension Act of 2025 (PDF) provides AI training to managers and supervisors, as well as employees working in data and technology-related roles. The proposed law also allows for the incorporation of AI training “in other training programs.”
“This bill ensures that our workforce ensures the knowledge, tools and guardrails to use AI effectively, responsibly, and to serve the American people,” Mace said in a statement.
The bill updates and extends the 2022 AI training curriculum. Replace the vague reference to “AI that is the foundation of science” with a more practical module about what AI is, its capabilities and risks, privacy and security considerations, how agents manage their deployments, and how important role data works in all of it.
It is also necessary that federal guidance and training materials from the Office of Management and Budget under existing AI Acts are consistent.
AI is here to stay here – and we must ensure that federal employees at all levels are trained to use it wisely, safely and effectively
“AI is here to stay here and we need to ensure that federal employees at all levels are trained to use it wisely, safely and effectively,” Brown said of the measure.
As is often the case with such common sense measures, the passage of this bill is far from certain.
Mace proposed a nearly identical bill, the AI Training Extension Act of 2023, but the measure never made its way into the Full House vote, despite being marked up, amended and reported by the committee just two days after it was introduced.
Right to regulate
The US Senate is currently discussing President Donald Trump’s budget settlement bill. This strips states of their right to regulate their own technology for ten years.
Legislators on both sides of the aisle dislike the proposal and fear that they could sink the settlement bill.
Thus, Republican senators have introduced measures that would link a suspension of AI regulations to fund broadband expansion. That tactic could mean a state that loses access to broadband expansion funds to enact state-level AI regulations and to facilitate lawmakers to pass budget adjustment bills for AI regulations.
We asked both MACE and Brown to comment on the state of AI regulations. Neither of them responded at the time of writing. ®
