5 ways you can plug the widening AI skills gap at your business

tolgart / Getty Images Half of global technology leaders believe their organization has an AI skills shortage, and the capability gap has almost doubled in a year. The newly released Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report found that almost twice as many technology leaders (51%), compared with last year (28%), said their business has an AI skills shortage -- an 82% jump. Also: The great AI skills disconnect - and how to fix it The report by the recruitment specialist, the largest and longest-running survey of IT leadership in the world, found AI has jumped from the sixth-most-scarce technology skill to number one in just 18 months, the steepest and largest jump in any IT skills shortage recorded by the survey in more than 15 years of research. To put that level of growth in perspective, the report found that the increase in demand for cyber capability, another sought-after skill, has risen far more gradually -- from 16% in 2009 to 33% this year. Also: AI is paving the ... Read full article.