The University of Florida recently turned on the eighth most powerful supercomputer in higher education and 22nd most powerful supercomputer in the world. And added 100 new AI-focused faculty to the already several hundred who are engaged in AI. It's a complete transformation of higher education, built on artificial intelligence as a core competency. Joseph Glover, Provost and Senior VP of Academic Affairs, told me recently on the TechFirst podcast. "The College of Business just made AI a required introductory course for their entering freshmen ... we believe that this is going to be a transformational initiative for the University of Florida. We think that this is where higher education is going to inevitably go."

But the impact on jobs has not yet arrived in most organizations. As recently as 2017, headlines such as "Bosses Believe Your Work Skills Will Soon Be Useless" (from the The Washington Post) were common. Oxford University researchers argued in 2013 that 47% of U.S. jobs were at risk of loss to automation. MIT launched its institute-wide task force on the future of work in 2018. Leaders around the world began to consider how their organizations would be different when thousands of their employees' jobs are automated away.