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Report: AI use in the workforce must promote ‘shared prosperity’

A new call to action from Jobs for the Future and its JFF Labs asks, ‘Is AI making us all better off?’
By Laura Aka
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A new call to action from JFF Labs –  AI for Economic Opportunity and Advancement – poses the question many of us are asking ourselves these days: “Is AI making us all better off?”

JFF Labs, Jobs for the Future’s innovation lab, makes the case that the answer is “no” to that question “unless AI promotes shared prosperity through quality jobs, entrepreneurship, financial security, and broad economic growth — especially for populations facing barriers to opportunity…”

The call to action (CTA) acknowledges AI’s potential to “revolutionize” the economy, but notes “the benefits of AI are not guaranteed to be distributed equally, and its growth could either accelerate progress for all or further widen divides.”

AI for Economic Opportunity and Advancement announces several objectives in its CTA to achieve shared prosperity:

  • AI adoption creates value for businesses, employees, and other stakeholders by going beyond incremental efficiency gains to create new products, services, businesses, and quality jobs.
  • Employees actively shape the development of AI applications and AI decision-making within companies through structured support for their engagement.
  • Universal training starting in K-12 and continuing into on-the-job training positions people to be ethical, responsible users, managers, and creators of AI, including workforce and education institutions and leaders.
  • Everyone has lifelong access to responsible career navigation assistance that leverages the best of both AI and human capabilities.
  • Ensure a wide array of clear, accessible pathways to training and advancement in AI careers for people from all backgrounds.
  • AI workforce, education, and talent solutions are developed and used to promote accessible economic advancement, and potential adverse impacts of those technologies are mitigated.
  • Better-integrated, higher-quality public labor market data ensures that AI-supported career navigation platforms give workers and learners transparent and timely guidance to make informed choices.
  • Workforce and education institutions are redesigned and tech-enabled to facilitate agility, flexibility, and deep partnerships across labor markets.

The CTA was developed by the Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work and the Center for Population Strategies.

It notes that it’s intended for those who are part of the learn-to-work ecosystem, including investors in AI for workforce and education, workforce and education stakeholders, all employers, developers of AI technology, and policymakers.

Additionally, the CTA was informed by a new survey from JFF which finds 35% of respondents report using artificial intelligence at work. That is a significant increase from 8% in 2023.  

In 2024, 31% of respondents say they had access to employer-provided training on AI tools – a jump from 8% in 2023. But 56% of workers do not feel prepared to use AI on the job.

A majority of workers (57%) report feeling some or a great deal of impact from AI on their jobs. These impacts include reducing workloads, automating repetitive tasks, and being able to engage in more creative work responsibilities.

A significant 77% of those surveyed believe AI will have impact on the job or career they expect to have in the next 3-5 years. Of that 77%, 39% believe AI will have a great deal of impact. 

Conducted by AudienceNet late last year, the survey oversampled 2,754 respondents – ages 16 and above – facing barriers to advancement, including those without a four-year college degree, people of color, women of all backgrounds with up to a four-year degree, and people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated.

Learn more about AI for Economic Opportunity and Advancement: A Call to Action here.

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Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

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