Artificial intelligence literacy and curiosity are new must-have skills for employees in nearly every role in the workplace, testified Ken Meyer, SHRM-SCP, senior director of human resources for Ryan Health in New York City, on behalf of SHRM before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Sept. 25. Meyer is the immediate past president of the New York City chapter of SHRM.

As more businesses adopt AI, U.S. workers will need to learn, adapt to, and use this technology to remain competitive, Meyer testified during the hearing, called “Reading the Room: Preparing Workers for AI.” SHRM’s research shows that 30% of HR leaders feel greater pressure to innovate and 28% believe there is an increased need to upskill and reskill workers.

There is a “huge scarcity in AI literacy” in the talent pool, testified Karin Kimbrough, chief economist at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale, Calif. The gap will not be closed easily, she said before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, a subpanel of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

The AI revolution that is taking place “will define a generation of students and workers,” testified Alex Kotran, co-founder and CEO of aiEDU in San Francisco. He called for a national movement for AI readiness and warned that, after the next recession, there could be “wide-ranging displacement” due to AI.

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