TEN 07-25, translated for your role
The framework speaks to four audiences. Buyers arrive as ten. Pick the one that describes you and read the version written for the decision in front of you.
The DOL AI Literacy Framework names four audiences: workers and students, employers, education and training providers, and state and local agencies. These ten pages take that guidance and answer it for one reader at a time, with the framework's own words plus the first five moves each reader can make this week.
Last verified against the DOL source: August 20, 2026. What changed
Workers, Job Seekers, and Students
The DOL AI Literacy Framework says every worker needs baseline AI literacy. What TEN 07-25 means for your job, your job search, and your next credential. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionEmployers
What the DOL AI Literacy Framework tells employers to do: workflow review, role-level literacy targets, hands-on practice, internal AI-use guidance. Employer guide to TEN 07-25, verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionEducation & Training Providers
The DOL AI Literacy Framework tells education and training providers how to design AI literacy instruction: curriculum integration, hands-on practice, judgment exercises, employer partnerships. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionState & Local Agencies
TEN 07-25 tells state and local agencies to integrate AI literacy into WIOA services, workshops, and career navigation. Agency guide to the DOL AI Literacy Framework. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionSchool Districts
What the DOL AI Literacy Framework (TEN 07-25) means for school districts: CTE integration, teacher AI literacy, federal funding signals, and the K-20 expansion DOL has signaled. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionWorkforce Boards
Workforce board guide to TEN 07-25: WIOA funding for AI literacy (TEGL 03-25), American Job Center integration, staff training, and RFP criteria from the DOL framework. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionCommunity Colleges
Community colleges are named in TEN 07-25. How to integrate the DOL AI Literacy Framework into credit, non-credit, and workforce programs, standalone or embedded. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionCTE Programs
State CTE directors are addressed in TEN 07-25. How the DOL AI Literacy Framework integrates with CTE curricula, and the K-20 expansion DOL has signaled. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionHR & L&D Leaders
HR and L&D guide to the DOL AI Literacy Framework: onboarding integration, manager upskilling, internal mobility, and vendor evaluation against the 12 provisions. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionJob Seekers
The DOL AI Literacy Framework tells job seekers to build baseline AI skills. How to use TEN 07-25's five content areas to stand out, resumes, interviews, and credentials. Verified 2026-08-20.
Read this versionThe four audiences the framework itself addresses
Workers, Job Seekers, and Students
Workers can start by identifying routine tasks in their current work, such as drafting emails, summarizing reports, or organizing data, and experimenting with an AI tool to complete those tasks, comparing the AI output with their normal approach and noticing where AI saves time and where human oversight and judgment are especially important. As confidence grows: explore AI tools relevant to their industry, scan job postings for AI-related expectations, and seek training that builds from foundational literacy toward role-specific proficiency.
Employers and Industry Associations
Employers can start by reviewing current workflows where AI tools are emerging, such as drafting reports, analyzing data, or responding to customers, and assessing how basic AI literacy can help employees work more effectively. Also: identify specific tasks where AI can augment employee capabilities, determine what level of AI literacy different roles require, encourage simple hands-on practice around common workplace tasks, provide clear internal guidance on appropriate AI use, and identify roles that may require deeper proficiency. Covers onboarding new hires, upskilling current employees, and equipping managers to guide adoption. Industry associations can use the framework to create shared approaches for member organizations.
Education and Training Providers
Providers can start by reviewing existing curricula to identify where AI literacy content can be integrated, then provide learners with hands-on experience using AI tools to complete tasks relevant to their field of study. Also: add examples tied to specific industries or job roles, incorporate exercises that build judgment about AI outputs, create clear pathways from foundational literacy to deeper role-specific skills, and partner with local employers on regional labor-market relevance. Named provider types include community colleges, online learning platforms, and Registered Apprenticeship programs; content can be a standalone module or embedded within existing learning pathways.
State and Local Agencies
Agencies can start by assessing how workers and employers in their region are adopting AI tools and identifying opportunities to integrate AI literacy content into existing workshops, orientations, or career navigation services. Also: work with local training providers and employers to align content with regional industry needs, ensure staff are equipped to discuss AI tools with customers, and use AI literacy to strengthen re-employment, upskilling, and talent-matching efforts. The framework explicitly supports integrating AI literacy into WIOA services and other programs. Named actors include state and local workforce development boards.
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education) is a private education company, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor. DOL does not certify or endorse training programs. Framework summaries are drawn from the public TEN 07-25 document. Read TEN 07-25 on dol.gov. Last verified: August 20, 2026.