Artificial intelligence (AI) skills will be as important as English and maths, Euan Blair’s apprenticeship company has said as it launches new training.
Multiverse, which matches school leavers with more than 300 employers including Google and Morgan Stanley, and provides on-the-job training, will offer all apprentices AI training from September.
The start-up, founded by Sir Tony Blair’s son, works with thousands of apprentices in the UK.
Rebecca Agostino, the vice president of delivery at Multiverse, said: “We’ve been working on AI for many years internally at Multiverse, supporting some of the most exciting AI companies with their skills strategies – and in the coming years, I strongly believe that AI skills will be just as important for workers as English and math are today.”
She added: “This is an urgent cause: when we polled our apprentices, around half weren’t using ChatGPT in their daily work. That’s a massive missed opportunity which, unless corrected, could see them falling behind.
“We shouldn’t leave it to chance, and instead go out of our way to ensure workers have the skills they need to capture the benefits of these tools.”
A poll of 1,000 business leaders by the company found that 83 per cent plan to implement urgent AI training for their staff.
