There is some excitement from employees about AI and the promise and how do they use that on a day-to-day basis. The other thing they're saying is that they need help learning skills and understanding how do they fit into this new ecosystem that we're going to see where we're kind of human machine teaming is something that, might be a way to think of it. How do I fit in and how do I really build the skills that I need to be part of the future workforce? So I think they're, they're asking for help from their employer on, on how do they learn those skills and what is, they know there's change out there and how does they're expecting their employer to help, help them make that change so that they can be successful in their

AI can help organize information, spot themes, and turn a blank page into a starting point. But someone still has to understand the context, check the output, and decide whether it is actually useful. That is the real skill. How career change education is adapting. This matters a lot for career changers. AI readiness can't be treated as a separate bonus skill anymore. It has to be part of job readiness. That demand is already visible among career changers. In a 2026 survey of 234 US graduates, 63% said they had prioritized AI skills when choosing a training program. That shift is also showing up in workforce training, with Google. Org providing $10 million to support AI training for 40,000 manufacturing workers, while Microsoft and LinkedIn have launched free AI training programs to help workers build practical AI fluency across different roles.