Workers, learners, and leaders across the education-to-career ecosystem are racing to understand and respond to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs, skills, and the future of work itself. As emerging research projects significant disruptions across industries and occupations, policymakers, employers, and training providers - as well as workers and learners themselves - are asking timely questions about the implications of these shifts for the future of work. Which tasks and skills will be most important for human workers to thrive in an AI-transformed future, and which will incr
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Workers, learners, and leaders across the education-to-career ecosystem are racing to understand and respond to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs, skills, and the future of work itself. As emerging research projects significant disruptions across industries and occupations, policymakers, employers, and training providers - as well as workers and learners themselves - are asking timely questions about the implications of these shifts for the future of work. Which tasks and skills will be most important for human workers to thrive in an AI-transformed future, and which will increasingly be best suited for next-generation AI, robotics, and other machine-related advances? What will these shifts mean for jobs held by millions of U.S. workers today, especially those without bachelor's degrees or who have experienced barriers to economic advancement, in critical industries? How can leaders across the workforce and education continuum begin now to reshape these jobs to center tasks and responsibilities that are best performed by human workers while still capitalizing on the unprecedented opportunities offered by AI?
To address these questions, Jobs for the Future's (JFF's) new Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, incubated within JFF's innovation lab, JFFLabs, collaborated with Intel Corporation, a leader in advancing AI technology responsibly, to craft a new set of resources for thinking - and planning - today for the complex ways in which AI will transform jobs tomorrow. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of labor market data and surveys of business, workforce, and education leaders, we created: (1) The AI-Ready Workforce Framework: a new model for AI's dynamic impact on tasks and skills; (2) AI-Transformation Profiles: reshaping industries and occupations to center human skills; and (3) The AI-Ready Workforce Transformation Blueprint: recommendations and key strategies for policy leaders, employers, and postsecondary institutions.
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