The will for artificial intelligence expertise in new hires has exploded over the final 5 years, and continues to be a precedence for hiring managers throughout practically each business, information from Stanford College’s annual AI Index Report discovered.
In 2023, 1.6 p.c of all United States-based jobs required AI expertise, a slight dip from the 2 p.c posted in 2022. The lower comes after a few years of rising curiosity in artificial intelligence, and is probably going attributed to hiring slowdowns, freezes or layoffs at main tech corporations like Amazon, Deloitte and Capital One in 2023, the report stated.
The numbers are nonetheless drastically up from only a few years in the past, and in 2023, 1000’s of jobs throughout each business required AI expertise.
What do these AI jobs appear to be? And the place are they based mostly, exactly?
Generative AI expertise, or the capability to construct algorithms that produce textual content, pictures or different information when prompted, have been wanted most, with practically 60 p.c of AI-related jobs requiring these expertise. Giant language modeling, or constructing expertise that may generate and translate textual content, was second in demand, with 18 p.c of AI jobs citing the want for these expertise.
These expertise have been adopted by ChatGPT data, immediate engineering, or coaching AI, and two different particular machine studying expertise.
The industries that require these expertise run the gamut — the info business ranked first with 4.63 p.c of jobs whereas skilled, scientific and technical companies got here in second with 3.33 p.c. The monetary and insurance coverage industries adopted with 2.94 p.c, and manufacturing got here in fourth with 2.48 p.c.
Public administration jobs, training jobs, administration and utilities jobs all sought AI expertise in 1 to 2 p.c of their open roles, whereas agriculture, mining, wholesale commerce, actual property, transportation, warehousing, retail commerce and waste administration sought AI expertise in 0.4 to 0.85 p.c of their jobs.
Although AI jobs are concentrated in some areas of the nation, practically each U.S. state had 1000’s of AI-specific jobs in 2023, the report discovered.
California—house to Silicon Valley—had 15.3 p.c, or 70,630 of the nation’s AI-related jobs posted in 2023. It was adopted by Texas at 7.9 p.c, or 36,413 jobs. Virginia was third, with 5.3 p.c, or 24,417 of AI jobs.
Primarily based on inhabitants, Washington state had the highest proportion of individuals in AI jobs, with California in second and New York in third.
Montana, Wyoming and West Virginia have been the solely states with fewer than 1,000 open roles requiring AI, however due to inhabitants sizes, AI jobs nonetheless made up 0.75 p.c, 0.95 p.c and 0.46 p.c of all of the state’s open roles final yr.
Although the variety of jobs dipped from 2022 to 2023, the adoption of AI applied sciences throughout enterprise operations has not. In 2017, 20 p.c of companies reported that that they had begun utilizing AI for no less than one operate of their work. In 2022, 50 p.c of companies stated that they had, and that quantity reached 55 p.c in 2023.
For people who have included AI instruments into their companies, it’s making their employees extra productive, the report discovered. The report stated research have proven that AI instruments have allowed employees to finish duties extra shortly and have improved the high quality of their work. The analysis steered that AI may very well be additionally able to upskilling employees, the report discovered.
The report acknowledges that with all the technological advances that the AI business has seen in the final 5 years, there are nonetheless many unknowns. America remains to be awaiting federal AI laws, whereas states make their very own rules and legal guidelines.
The Stanford report predicts two futures for the trajectory of the expertise—one during which the expertise continues to develop and improve productiveness, however there’s a risk that it’s used for “good and unhealthy makes use of.” In one other future, with out correct analysis and growth, the adoption of AI applied sciences may very well be constrained, researchers stated.
“They are stepping in to encourage the upside,” the report stated of presidency our bodies. “Governments are additionally aiming to handle the potential downsides, corresponding to impacts on employment, privateness considerations, misinformation and mental property rights.”
