The 2020 Global Talent Competitiveness Index Report (GTCI) with a focus on talent in the age of AI has recently been released highlighting some significant information on AI and the impact on the workforce.
AI skills are scarce and unequally distributed across industries, sectors, and nations. However, with the right policies and approaches, AI may also provide significant opportunities for emerging markets to leap ahead in talent competitiveness and potentially become ‘global delivery centres’ for AI applications. AI technologies could also play a key role in solving seemingly intractable global issues such as poverty, endemic diseases, climate change and terrorism.
As machines and algorithms continue to absorb a profusion of tasks and responsibilities and almost every job gets reinvented, the right talent is required not only to adapt but to capture value from this transformative technology.