Hosted alongside Carnegie Mellon University, the AI Adoption Initiative convened policymakers, researchers, educators, workforce practitioners, and industry leaders from around the world for a two-day workshop, AI Upskilling: The Future of Work in the Age of AI.

Panels, discussions, and breakout rooms throughout the workshop were structured from the AI Adoption Initiative and Carnegie Mellon University’s pre-read policy paper, The AI Labor Stack: Rethinking the Workforce from the Ground Up. The paper introduced three layers of the AI labor stack: the innovators who build the infrastructure, the facilitators who deploy and integrate the technology, and the users whose jobs will ultimately be changed by applying AI.

The contributions and feedback from participants informed the revisions of the paper, which can be found below along with its companion paper titled AI Adoption, Upskilling, and Workforce Transformation in the Global Economy, as well as an after-action report summarizing the workshop’s discussions.