BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 17 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms the American labor market, workers are wondering how worried they should be about their occupation's vulnerability to new technologies.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers has developed a new metric: the Reskilling Urgency Index (RUI), that can provide an idea of the uncertainties faced for people working in 879 occupations, based on factors that extend past the skills of the job itself.
While previous workforce studies focused almost exclusively on how heavily jobs are exposed to AI, the team extended that research by integrating two vital complementary indicators: ski...