Report: “AI Revolution Creates Demand For Hot New Job: AI Librarian”
Ed. Note: Great to see that in a time where we frequently read about how AI is going to be a cause for job reductions, the skills, abilities, and experience of a librarian are still vital. What can the today’s librarian community do to demonstrate this to more people in more industries?
From WorkLife (Also Published on Digiday.com):
As AI reshapes business, including the business of HR, a new role is emerging that bridges the gap between human expertise and machine learning: the AI librarian.
It’s a job you may have never heard of, but chances are that, given time, you will. In fact, it is one of the hottest new roles to emerge from the explosion in generative AI, according to a report by Korn Ferry, whose AI lead characterized skills required for collecting, organizing and analyzing data as the “central nervous system of AI.”
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“As the need for AI talent increases, we may see more companies targeting these data-intensive jobs outside of traditional tech in order to secure the people they need.”
Read the Complete Article (about 640 words)
See Also: “Wanted for AI: Librarians” (by Vinay Menon, Korn Ferry)
Filed under: Data Files, Jobs, News
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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