Cisco-led consortium to spread AI expertise in the workforce [Video]

Cisco and eight other companies today announced they would form the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, as a venue to share generative AI knowledge and expertise in the workforce, and to help workers gain skills relevant to the newly AI-centric jobs of tomorrow.

In an official statement, the companies said that the first order of business would be to create a broad-based report on the state of AI expertise among workers, which would also provide “actionable insights” for companies and their employees.

Along with Cisco, the members of the consortium are Eightfold, Accenture, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP. In the statement, the group said that the impetus for forming the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium is in part the work done by the joint US-EU Trade and Technology Council’s Talent for Growth Task Force.

The first steps toward real insight into the issue of AI-related skills in the workforce, and …