Bloomberg Surveillance · Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is heading 'Raise US,' a non-partisan organization aimed at ensuring American workers benefit from the AI revolution. The initiative seeks to address outdated infrastructure and worker support systems, highlighting concerns that a failure to manage the AI transition could lead to mass unemployment and economic destabilization, potentially causing the US to lose the global AI race.
“So Raise US is the new organization that I am leading, and our mission. Is very simple. You know, we want the US to lead the global AI competition, but to have a strategy so that every American worker gets brought along. And right now we're not headed down that path. And it's something I'm deeply worried about.”
“And I will tell you one of my greatest worries is even if America has the best chips, the best models, the most data centers, but doesn't have an intentional plan to manage this transition and falls into a period of very high unemployment, we will lose the AI race because that will be too destabilizing.”
“We have extremely outdated infrastructure, social insurments, support for workers, incentives for companies to retrain and redeploy instead of just laying people off.”