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AI Human Capital, Jobs and Skills

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This chapter reviews the literature investigating the way Artificial Intelligence

(AI) and automation change the type and distribution of job tasks that
workers need to perform, as well as skill demand and employment patterns.
The evidence surveyed shows that the impact of AI on jobs and skills varies
across demographic groups, occupations, and regions. While the most
frequently required skills in AI jobs relate to the programming language
Python and to machine learning (ML), a number of skills bundles emerge,
highlighting the existence of skill complementarities at the heart of the AI
transformation. Technical skills related to ML, data mining, cluster analysis,
natural language processing, and robotics emerge as being central to the
deployment of AI but go hand in hand with other cognitive and socio-
emotional skills. The chapter further discusses how best to form and augment
human capital, and to help individuals adapt to AI-induced changes in the
labor market, especially through reskilling and upskilling. It highlights the
importance of access to quality education for all, independent of age or
gender; and the need to provide especially female individuals with
opportunities to participate in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM)-related education and training. It further underlines the
need for lifelong learning, in light of constantly evolving AI-related
technologies and changing skill requirements; more frequent job-to-job
transitions as job tenures shorten; and workers’ heterogeneous skills,
competencies, and abilities. The chapter concludes by offering a summary of
the contributions analyzed and their policy implications and highlights
possible avenues for future work. © 2024 selection and editorial matter,
Francesco Paolo Appio, Davide La Torre, Francesca Lazzeri, Hatem Masri,
Francesco Schiavone; individual chapters, the contributors. This chapter
reviews the literature investigating the way Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
automation change the type and distribution of job tasks that workers need to
perform, as well as skill demand and employment patterns. The evidence
surveyed shows that the impact of AI on jobs and skills varies across
demographic groups, occupations, and regions. While the most frequently
required skills in AI jobs relate to the programming language Python and to
machine learning (ML), a number of skills bundles emerge, highlighting the
existence of skill complementarities at the heart of the AI transformation.
Technical skills related to ML, data mining, cluster analysis, natural language
processing, and robotics emerge as being central to the deployment of AI but
go hand in hand with other cognitive and socio-emotional skills. The chapter
further discusses how best to form and augment human capital, and to help
individuals adapt to AI-induced changes in the labor market, especially
through reskilling and upskilling. It highlights the importance of access to
quality education for all, independent of age or gender; and the need to
provide especially female individuals with opportunities to participate in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related education
and training. It further underlines the need for lifelong learning, in light of
constantly evolving AI-related technologies and changing skill requirements;
more frequent job-to-job transitions as job tenures shorten; and workers’
heterogeneous skills, competencies, and abilities. The chapter concludes by
offering a summary of the contributions analyzed and their policy implications
and highlights possible avenues for future work. © 2024 selection and
editorial matter, Francesco Paolo Appio, Davide La Torre, Francesca Lazzeri,
Hatem Masri, Francesco Schiavone; individual chapters, the contributors.

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