I'd say the most important part of my testimony is that, if you feel blindsided or surprised by what AI can do right now, you're not alone. The research community, economists, computer scientists, we've all been really surprised by what recent examples of generative AI can do. The reason we're surprised is that the tools, the data and the framework we've been using to think about AI and the future of work, at least in my case, are clearly outdated. They aren't dynamic enough to account for what generative AI can do.
Moving forward, I would suggest adapting the data that policy-makers and researchers use so that we can be more responsive to what AI is actually doing and better prepare the workers who are directly in the path of AI with that improved data. Data on skills, I think, would do a lot to help provide insight in both the policy-making and the research domain.