IBL News | New York
The AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, led by Cisco and including industry leaders Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP, released its inaugural report, “The Transformational Opportunity of AI on ICT Jobs.”
The report analyzes AI’s effects on nearly 50 top information and communication technology jobs and offers training recommendations to enable an AI-powered workforce.
The initiative seeks to empower workers to reskill and upskill, preparing them for an environment increasingly adept at mimicking human capabilities.
According to a recent World Economic Forum study, 58 percent of surveyed employees believe their job skills will change significantly in the next five years due to AI and big data.
The analysis finds that every job will become AI-influenced.
More findings:
- 92% of information and communication technology (ICT) jobs are expected to undergo either high or moderate transformation.
- 37% of entry-level positions are expected to have high levels of transformation.
- Skills such as AI ethics, responsible AI, prompt engineering, AI literacy, Large Language Models [LLM] architecture and agile methodologies) will be in more demand.Foundational skills, including AI literacy, data analytics, and prompt engineering, are needed across ICT job roles to prepare for AI.
Traditional data management, content creation, documentation maintenance, basic programming and languages, and research information will become less relevant.
The Consortium report thoroughly examines AI’s impact on 47 information and communication technology roles across seven job families via a Job Transformation Canvas.
Those jobs include business analyst, data scientist, IT manager, and information security specialist. The seven job families include business and management, cybersecurity, data science, design and user experience, infrastructure and operations, software development, testing, and quality assurance.
According to Indeed Hiring Lab, the roles were selected based on the highest job postings for February 2023-2024 in the U.S. and Europe.
The Job Transformation Canvas takes a skills-based approach and describes each role, including a job description, principal tasks, and corresponding skills.
The Job Transformation Canvas further outlines how AI will influence each role and identifies future skills required, including skills made less relevant by AI and skills complemented by it.
Each ICT job receives an AI-impact evaluation with detailed recommendations for reskilling and upskilling. The core skills and training recommendations enable employers to take immediate action.
Workers can use the Job Transformation Canvas as a training companion as they prepare for an AI-fueled job market, and employers can leverage the report as a training development guide to cultivate and enable their AI-ready workforces.
Consortium members have established training opportunities to positively impact over 95 million individuals worldwide over the next ten years.
- Cisco will train 25 million people in cybersecurity and digital skills by 2032.
- IBM will skill 30 million individuals by 2030 in digital skills, including 2 million in AI by the end of 2026.
- Intel will empower more than 30 million people with AI skills for current and future jobs by 2030.
- Microsoft committed to training and certifying 10 million people in digital skills by 2025, surpassing this goal by training and certifying 12.6 million people a year ahead of schedule.
- SAP will upskill two million people worldwide by 2025.
- Google has recently announced over $130 million in funding to support AI training and skills for people across the US, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and APAC.
