Welcome to the AI in Registered Apprenticeship Innovation Portal
Explore resources, models, and insights to integrate AI into your Registered Apprenticeship programs. Check out the Department's press release to learn more about resources to help equip workers and employers to lead in an AI economy.
Building the AI-Ready Workforce through Registered Apprenticeship
Check out the recording from the National Apprenticeship Week 2026 marquee event, "Building the AI-Ready Workforce through Registered Apprenticeship." During this session, DOL leaders highlighted Registered Apprenticeship as a proven, scalable path to artificial intelligence (AI) skills, emphasizing AI’s impact on the future workforce. A panel discussion with representatives from private sector leaders in AI, including Google, NPower, Lockheed Martin, and BuildWithin, explored how AI is transforming Registered Apprenticeship programs to upskill workers and expand talent pipelines.
Why is Using AI Important?
- AI is changing how work gets done.
- AI tools are showing up across American workplaces and reshaping work across every sector.
- AI is creating new jobs, driving productivity gains that can lead to higher earnings, and unlocking new opportunities for entrepreneurship.
- But real AI-driven gains don't happen automatically. Organizations need to train workers on foundational and role-specific skills to use AI safely, appropriately, and effectively.
Employees With Strong Foundational AI Skills Can:
- Complete certain routine tasks faster and more consistently, from drafting emails to organizing data.
- Produce stronger, better-structured, and more polished work.
- Focus more time on problem solving, customer service, and unique or technical work that requires human-led skills and expertise.
- Learn and integrate new AI tools into their work more quickly.
How to Get Started
Use the pages in this section to explore:
- AI Skills and Literacy in Registered Apprenticeship: Learn what AI literacy is and how Registered Apprenticeship can help improve AI literacy within your organization.
- AI Skill Building by Industry: Explore AI skill-building modules for specific occupations and industries.
- Three Options to Integrate AI: Join an existing National Registered Apprenticeship program, develop a new program, or update your current program to include AI skills.
- Join an Existing Program: There are National Registered Apprenticeship programs your organization can join today.
- Create a New Program: Build AI into a new Registered Apprenticeship program with already-built National Guideline Standards or create your own.
- Update an Existing Program: Build AI tasks into On-the-Job Learning (OJL) and/or Related Technical Instruction (RTI).
- Next Steps: Get connected with support resources to start building.