New Caucus Shows Congress Preparing to Focus on ‘Future of Work’

House lawmakers have reached across the aisle to form a new caucus that will help to define Congress’s approach to legal and regulatory concerns arising from the adoption of artificial intelligence, robotics, and other forms of automation technology.

Congress lacks a national strategic plan for how it will respond to automation technology—commonly referred to under the catch-all term of “Future of Work"—and the far-reaching changes it will produce in the economy and for the American worker, said Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a co-founder of the caucus.

The Congressional Future of Work Caucus, as the group will be known, is ...