What Skills Will You Need to Face the Rise of AI?

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace almost half of the jobs in America in the next decade" – How often have you heard such phrases? To enable fully functioning AI working in both blue and white-collar jobs by 2030, educators are creating a new generation with IT-savvy skills to keep graduates employable in this imagined future landscape. A study by McKinsey Global Institute (2018) suggests that AI won't necessarily lead to massive unemployment as innovation-focused AI adopters would likely increase their employment to achieve growth. Gartner also reported that AI is expected to create 2.3 million jobs by 2020 and Capgemini stated that 83% of companies using AI said that the technology has led to job creation in their organization. As has been said of the past, "the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones", same could be said about the nature of employment; "the boring desk job didn't end because we ran out of routine tasks".