AI talent shortage presents challenge to companies

Companies across all industries have been scrambling to secure top AI talent from a pool that's not growing fast enough. Even during the economic disruptions and layoffs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for AI talent has been strong. Leaders are looking to reduce costs through automation and efficiency, and AI has a real role to play in that effort.1 In Deloitte's third edition of the State of AI in the Enterprise survey, we found something unexpected when it came to skill gaps for AI implementations.2 Although a majority of the most mature AI adopters, the Seasoned, reported little or no gap between their AI needs and current abilities, 23 percent said they had a major or extreme one--a higher percentage than the less mature organizations.