CNBC Changemakers with Julia Boorstin

Name: Inside the Urgent Effort to Prepare America’s Workforce for a Massive AI Disruption
Uploaded: 2026-09-28T21:00:17.000Z
Duration: 36 min 57 s

Inside the Urgent Effort to Prepare America’s Workforce for a Massive AI Disruption

This week on CNBC Changemakers: Women Leading in the Age of AI, Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo joins CNBC's Julia Boorstin to discuss how AI could reshape America’s workforce. She shares how her organization, RAISE US, is focused on retraining workers, partnering with states and businesses, and preventing AI from widening economic and gender gaps—while encouraging people to embrace change, build AI fluency and remain focused on building human skills.

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Mon, Sep 28 20265:00 PM EDT

Julia Boorstin

Season 2 of the CNBC Changemakers podcast spotlights the women shaping the future of business, policy and culture in the age of AI.

In episode one, CNBC's Julia Boorstin goes inside the urgent effort to prepare America's workforce for an AI disruption expected to disproportionately affect jobs held by women. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo examines how artificial intelligence could reshape work, skills and economic opportunity—and what workers, companies and policymakers must do now to ensure more Americans share in its benefits.

Raimondo, now co-chair and CEO of RAISE US, is building workforce infrastructure designed to help Americans train, transition and thrive as AI reshapes the economy. For her, the mission is personal: her father lost his manufacturing job when production moved overseas, an experience that cemented her belief that workers need a real bridge—not just a warning—when technology and globalization transform industries.

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, August 26 2026.

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