byMargaret Moffett

Mar 6, 2024 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

Microsoft and the nation’s largest federation of labor unions, the AFL-CIO, announced a partnership late last year to give workers more of a say about how artificial intelligence impacts their jobs. Neither group released specifics, but pledged to collaborate on worker-centered AI design and policies on ethics and skill development. The plan’s third prong — and the one receiving the least attention — may have the greatest immediate impact on the workforce: boosting basic AI literacy.

Jan 24, 2024 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

It has only been a week since Arizona State University announced its new partnership with OpenAI, but there’s already an arm’s-length list of questions about the implications for higher education and workforce development. Just a few: How exactly will the partnership better prepare students for the jobs of the future? Will such collaborations force institutions to boost AI literacy among their faculty and staff, who have to date received little training on generative AI?

Jan 17, 2024 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

North Carolina has an ambitious plan to modernize its community colleges, starting at square one: funding. Under a proposal dubbed Propel NC, the system would no longer award money to its campuses based on total full-time enrollment, something experts have long argued punishes colleges with large numbers of part-time students.

Dec 21, 2023 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

With automation already transforming the workforce, a new report from McKinsey & Company warns that the rise of generative AI threatens a new group of marginalized workers: Black people in high-mobility jobs who lack four-year degrees. The results could be devastating, according to the report from the company’s Institute for Black Economic Mobility, potentially widening the already yawning racial wealth gap by $43 billion each year.