A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launched to prepare workers for an “AI jobs shock,” with former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo serving as co-founders and top leaders. The group says it plans to convene AI companies, employers, philanthropies, and educators around education and training pilots tied to measurable employment outcomes. The nonprofit begins by partnering with officials and employers in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, and Utah, with anchor employers including Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI’s foundation, UPS, General Motors, Eli Lilly, Mastercard, AMD, Cisco, and IBM. Its advisory board includes economists David Autor, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Raj Chetty. The initiative’s early design highlights a key governance question for higher education leaders: whether colleges and workforce systems can secure influence over curricula, credential pathways, and placement metrics in partnerships that also include firms driving AI-driven job redesign. RAISE US is positioned as a practical “hub” for workforce transition planning, with an emphasis on aligning schools with employer demand rather than waiting for a downstream labor market crisis.