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Google is introducing two training opportunities to increase basic AI skills for the workforce

Google has announced a new major training initiative designed to increase AI skills throughout the workforce.

The project includes a new Google Google Google AI Essentials Course that will be offered on Coursera Coursera , the online learning platform, in addition to a $75 million AI Opportunity Fund to make the course more widely available.

The company’s new online Google AI Essentials course is designed and taught by Google experts in AI. The course, which will not require a prior degree or AI experience, will focus on “teaching workers foundational AI skills, AI best practices, and how to use AI responsibly.” Google claims that “in under 10 hours of self-paced study,” students will gain an introduction to AI, learn how to write effective prompts and be able to identify AI’s potential biases and harm.

Designed to give learners hands-on experience using AI in their work, the course, which will cost $49 on Coursera, will involve videos, readings, and interactive exercises. Individuals who complete the course will earn a certificate from Google.

The $75 million Google AI Opportunity Fund , offered through the company’s philanthropic arm, is aimed at enabling at least one million Americans take the course and learn basic generative AI skills by providing grants to workforce development and education organizations.

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For example, Miami Dade College will offer the course to all students enrolled in its AI college-degree program, and the University of Virginia’s Darden Executive Education and Lifelong Learning will provide the course to working learners.

These and other organizations will allow the AI training to be extended for free to several segments of society, including rural and underserved communities, educators and students, public sector workers, nonprofit leaders and small businesses.

“AI offers significant opportunities to accelerate economic growth, particularly if people have access to the right resources and training,” said James Manyika, senior vice president for research, technology & society at Google, in a release shared with the press.

“Google.org’s new AI Opportunity Fund and Google’s AI Essentials Course are important next steps in our commitment to ensure everyone, everywhere can access AI training. No single employer or policymaker will be able to modernize workforce programs on their own – we are committed to collaborating across industry, civil society and government to ensure the opportunities created by new technologies are available to everyone,” Manyika added.

Despite the increasing demand for AI skills across several industry sectors, the World Economic Forum estimates that only half of workers have access to adequate AI training today. To equip as many workers as possible with foundational AI skills, Google introduced an AI Opportunity Agenda last year.

One of the first recipients of Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund grant will be Goodwill. With more than 80% of Americans living within 10 miles of a Goodwill, it’s expected the organization will be able to offer Google’s AI Essentials course at scale to many local communities at no cost.

“Beginning in 2017, our digital skills training work with Google.org has unlocked new opportunities for hundreds of thousands of workers, including many in lower-wage jobs,” said Steve Preston, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, in the news release. “By expanding our efforts and leveraging Google’s new AI Essentials course, we can help US jobseekers attain the core digital and AI skills needed to step into well-paying jobs and greater prospects for economic mobility.”

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A Google program will provide AI skills training and funds to underserved communities, schools and small businesses.

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Google, through its AI Opportunity Fund , is doling out $75 million in grants to workforce development and education organizations to teach Americans how to use AI, the company said Friday. 

"AI offers significant opportunities to accelerate economic growth, particularly if people have access to the right resources and training," Google's senior vice president for research, technology and society, James Manyika, said in a release. 

The search giant is also launching the  Google AI Essentials online course to help teach foundational AI skills and best practices. The course, which costs $49 on Coursera, will teach people how to use AI in day-to-day work. On completion of the 10-hour course, people will earn a certificate. Miami Dade College and Darden Executive Education and Lifelong Learning will provide the course to students and working professionals. Citigroup will also use the course to upskill employees. 

Google.org, the company's philanthropy arm, aims to bridge the skill gap caused by the rapid ascension of technology. Given the demand for tech workers, Google awards grants and develops programs to help create a more tech-savvy workforce. For tech companies, these types of education programs help with brand image while also cultivating local talent and helping them break into emerging markets . Other Big Tech-driven philanthropic organizations include Microsoft Philanthropies, Amazon Future Engineer and Meta Elevate. 

An early recipient of Google's AI Opportunity Fund is Goodwill, a nonprofit that assists in job training and employment. 

"We can help US jobseekers attain the core digital and AI skills needed to step into well-paying jobs and greater prospects for economic mobility," said Goodwill CEO Steve Preston.

This isn't Google.org's first foray into AI-driven philanthropy. Generative AI for Educators  aims to help teachers use AI tools in the classroom.

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A lack of skills holds back tens of millions of people from finding jobs, growing in their careers, and adapting to today’s business opportunities. For example, an estimated 920 million people globally have an education that does not match their job 1 , while 60% of workers will require new training before 2027 but only some have access to adequate training opportunities 2 .

Expanding access to continuing education is a great way to level the playing field for everyone and give people a clearer understanding of the skills needed for a given job – and how to build those skills.

Jobspeaker , a Google Cloud EdTech partner, believes that bringing together educators, learners, and employers can significantly reduce the strain on people and businesses caused by the economic cycle and exponentially increasing technology effects on the job market.

“People need different things at different stages in their careers,” says Jarlath O’Carroll, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jobspeaker. “In the past decade, we’ve seen more people looking to re-skill or upskill in response to the quickly evolving economy. We focus on making re-skilling and upskilling as effective and efficient as possible.”

Jobspeaker chose to use Google Cloud and become a Google EdTech partner in building their exploration, learning, and work platform that improves skills matching for learners - including students, job seekers, and professionals - as well as educators and employers.

Mapping skills through a new common language

Since its inception, Jobspeaker has worked to create a complete suite of tools for career planning that focuses on clarifying what skills are required for desired jobs or careers and provides a path to gain those skills.

“We chose to focus on the language of skills because there was such a gap in understanding by both employers and job seekers,” says Richard Varn, Chief Information Officer and board member at Jobspeaker. “Establishing reliable skills descriptions and communications among learners, educators, and employers will lead to better outcomes for everyone.”

To accomplish its goals, Jobspeaker needed IT solutions that would enable it to extract specific information regarding the skills students acquire throughout their academic journeys, as well as those that employers seek. Google Cloud proved to be the best option because it provides the tools to extract vast amounts of information at scale.

“The task we had for AI was to pull out details about skills, competencies, activities, knowledge, and abilities in business and academia from highly unstructured data,” says Varn. “Given the scale and complexity of the data, we needed highly automated processes powered by a configurable AI infrastructure to support our machine learning.”

Jobspeaker chose to work with Vertex AI for its curriculum-to-skills mapping. After achieving initial success with classification work, Jobspeaker saw opportunities to use new generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI. These tools are now applied to extracting data that identifies and aggregates skills developed in education and maps them to job descriptions.

Jobspeaker is working to map every type of learning exercise, from a 15-minute educational YouTube video to a full four-year degree program, as professionals and students continue to learn from a wider array of sources. So far, Jobspeaker has successfully processed over 6,300 programs and 25,000 courses across higher and continuing education.

Speed has also improved by using Vertex AI. Jobspeaker’s processing took three to four weeks when it used a more manual process and on-prem IT. That was reduced to one to two weeks after moving to Google Cloud and now sits at under two days as it fine tunes more models. Jobspeaker expects to see even more complex skill mapping take as little as two or three hours in the near future.

Jobspeaker expects to see even more complex skill mapping take significantly less time as its processes evolve in the near future.

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Aligning with the right cloud provider

Jobspeaker also chose to work with Google Cloud because of its scalable infrastructure and expertise in search technologies. The company hopes to do for education and employment what Google does for so many industries.

“Our ultimate goal is to discover and use any kind of information that connects education to careers, understand the information in detail, and articulate the insights to our users,” says O’Carroll.

There’s a strong alignment between our principles and those of Google Cloud. We want to make valuable information available to learners, employers, educators, and others around the world

Jarlath O’Carroll, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jobspeaker

Jobspeaker now has the underlying infrastructure to scale up its skills mapping processes. Compute Engine powers Jobspeaker’s applications and infrastructure, providing an on-demand, efficient foundation for the company’s IT architecture.

In addition, Jobspeaker believes Google Cloud’s commitment to improving education for all is another strong area of alignment.

“While our initial interest in Google Cloud was based on the technology it offers, we’ve learned a lot more about the impressive things Google has done in education,” says O’Carroll. “We hope to create and deploy a Google Chromebook plug-in version of our service to increase its availability to more learners.”

All eyes on AI

Jobspeaker believes its decision to run on Google Cloud puts it in a strong position to experiment with AI as the technology evolves. The company is planning to use Gemini models , which is Google’s most capable and general model design to be multimodal, as it scales out its skills mapping processes to reach a wider variety of learners, educators, and employers.

“We are committed to helping educators, employers and learners navigate constantly changing economic landscapes,” says O’Carroll. “Recessions, technology advances, and the pandemic have all disrupted careers. We believe our platform gives people the chance to course correct their careers at any point. Google Cloud, through promising AI technologies like Gemini, will help us achieve our goals.”

For more information on how Google Cloud is helping EdTech companies succeed, read more EdTech success stories on the Public Sector blog .

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Google just dropped millions of dollars to teach more people how to use AI—and an exec says it could ‘create a reinvigoration of the American middle class’

On Friday morning, Google announced a $75 million grant in an upskilling initiative called the AI Opportunity Fund. The fund—meted out through Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm—aims to make AI training more accessible across the globe, namely in underserved communities and those working in nonprofits or small businesses. 

In tandem, the ubiquitous tech giant announced it’s rolling out a new product-agnostic course on AI essentials, geared at covering foundational AI skills and best practices. 

“AI offers significant opportunities to accelerate economic growth, particularly if people have access to the right resources and training,” James Manyika, Google’s senior vice president of Research, Technology & Society, wrote in a press release. “Google.org’s new AI Opportunity Fund and Google’s AI Essentials Course are important next steps in our commitment to ensure everyone, everywhere can access AI training.” 

“No single employer or policymaker will be able to modernize workforce programs on their own,” Manyika went on. “We are committed to collaborating across industry, civil society and government to ensure the opportunities created by new technologies are available to everyone.”

AI skills are crucial for us all

The need for generative AI skills in day-to-day work is only growing more urgent. As Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, told Fortune last year , the American workforce currently has a “giant mismatch” wherein “two-thirds of Americans—about 70 million workers—are basically locked out of all the jobs in our country.” 

Gevelber launched Grow with Google, the skilling initiative, in 2017. It shares lessons and certifications for the most in-demand skills of the day—often tech-related, like cybersecurity and data analytics. Enrollment is open to all, regardless of education level, and over 11 million Americans have taken a Grow with Google course so far.

Younger workers see clearly how a wider suite of capabilities can make them competitive candidates—and that can be crucial for pulling ahead at their current jobs. “As a matter of fact,” Gevelber said. “Gen Zers rate the ability to get upskilled in your job as even more important than paid vacation.”

Skills-based hiring is all the rage, including at legacy tech firms and private-sector stalwarts. Upskilling programs like Google’s are set to expedite and democratize the wave, Manyika tells Fortune .

Indeed, in the AI Essentials course, which spans just under 10 hours, students will gain skills that can apply to jobs across industries—and earn a certificate to prove it. It will be available to a handful of companies and universities as soon as it rolls out. “We think AI will have such a profound impact on workers’ future, and a key part of that is going to be the skills workers will need,” Manyika told Fortune, adding that the idea underpinning the grant is to bring upskilling opportunities to as many people as possible.

The Opportunity Fund doles out grants to organizations, letting them offer free courses for their workers. The actual AI Essentials course is self-paced, and doesn’t center on any particular AI product—not even Google’s. The idea, Manyika said, is to imbue learners with the basic skills to be able to use any AI product existing today, or which might exist down the line. Some questions learners might seek to answer: How do I generate a prompt? What can these tools help me with, and what’s still beyond their abilities? 

An array of research shows the least-skilled worker often benefits most from AI implementation, Manyika said. “So we want to make sure the workers who may have been precluded from AI advancements can benefit.”  

But naturally, simple AI know-how is hardly an antidote to the pitfalls still plaguing the nascent tech. “We know that some of these tools have limitations, around things like factuality or AI hallucinations,” Manyika said. “Knowing what the tools are good for—and not good for—is a very important skill; there’s real danger in misapplication.”

Generative AI might be a historically effective way of bridging skills gaps, which, as experts have long maintained, is a critical reason so few non-tech workers are able to fetch high salaries. “A lot of the divide in access to opportunities comes from the fact that, unless you have specific expertise, training or qualifications, things are closed off to you,” Manyika said, echoing Gevelber’s comments. “We think the tech itself—by being usable by non-experts—already helps address the gap.”

Students and young learners in underserved communities have “striking” ideas, Manyika said; they just don’t yet know how to generate the software code to bring those ideas to life. “Imagine being able to describe ideas to one of those systems and have it draft the code for it.” 

“AI might create a reinvigoration of the American middle class—an upleveling effect,” Manyika said. “Because it doesn’t just benefit the people who are experts at it. It can close the gap.” 

“This tech comes with certain responsibilities that we try to be mindful of and take very seriously,” Manyika said. “That’s why, at the heart of the work we do, we ask: Will this be helpful or beneficial in any way? AI will only work if it actually benefits workers.”

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Google rolled out a new course on Friday teaching people how to use artificial intelligence tools and announced its philanthropy arm is dedicating $75 million for 1 million Americans to take it for free as part of an initiative to make AI training more accessible.

The Alphabet-owned tech giant said its Google AI Essentials course, developed and taught by its own AI experts, teaches workers basic skills for using generative AI tools — such as Google's Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT — and is product agnostic.

Google has launched an AI education initiative to teach more Americans how to use the technology. (Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The roughly 10-hour course is available online on Coursera for $49, and it comes with a certificate of completion that can be shared with prospective employers. It does not require a degree or any experience.

Google said the new AI course will also be available through nonprofits, companies and schools, noting that Miami Dade College will provide the course to all students enrolled in its AI college degree program .

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Google's non-profit, Google.org, has also set up a $75 million AI Opportunity Fund that will provide grants to workforce development and education organizations to offer the AI training for no charge to more than 1 million people in rural and underserved communities, educators and students, public sector, nonprofit leaders and small businesses.

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Google said one of the first grant recipients from the AI Opportunity Fund will be Goodwill, which has offered Google's digital skills programs since 2017, resulting in some 400,000 Americans landing well-paying jobs.

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"AI offers significant opportunities to accelerate economic growth, particularly if people have access to the right resources and training," James Manyika, senior vice president for Research, Technology & Society at Google , said in a statement.

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"Google.org’s new AI Opportunity Fund and Google’s AI Essentials Course are important next steps in our commitment to ensure everyone, everywhere can access AI training," Manyika continued. 

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Many in Gen Z ditch colleges for trade schools. Meet the 'toolbelt generation'

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Sy Kirby dreaded the thought of going to college after graduating from high school. He says a four-year degree just wasn't in the cards for him or his bank account.

"I was facing a lot of pressure for a guy that knew for a fact that he wasn't going to college," Kirby says. "I knew I wasn't going to sit in a classroom, especially since I knew I wasn't going to pay for it."

Instead, at the age of 19, Kirby took a job at a local water department in southern Arkansas. He said the position helped him to develop the skills that helped him start his own construction company.

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Sy Kirby, who runs his own construction company, says a four-year degree just wasn't in the cards for him or his bank account.

Now at age 32, Kirby finds himself mentoring many of his employees, who also opted to learn a skilled trade rather than shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to pursue a degree that they wouldn't use after graduating.

Kirby says blue-collar work is lucrative and allows him to "call the shots" in his life. But, he says the job also comes with a downside, mainly because of the stigma attached to the industry.

"I think there's a big problem with moms and dads coming home from quote-unquote 'dirty' jobs. Coming home with dirty clothes and sweating. You had a hard day's work and sometimes that's looked down upon," he says.

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Kirby is among the growing number of young people who have chosen to swap college for vocational schools that offer paid, on-the-job training.

Skilled trades make a comeback

Lisa Countryman-Quiroz is the CEO of JVS, or Jewish Vocational Service, a nonprofit in San Francisco that provides career training for unemployed workers to find jobs, including in skilled trades. She says that over the years there has been a shift — with skilled trade making a comeback, especially among members of Generation Z.

"Folks have really prioritized a college education as a path to the middle class and a path to a cushy office job." But, Countryman-Quiroz says, "over the last 10 to 15 years, we are seeing a trend among young people opting out of universities. Just the crushing debt of college is becoming a barrier in and of itself."

More than half of Gen Zers say it's possible to get a well-paying job with only a high school diploma, provided one acquires other skills. That's according to a survey by New America, a Washington Think Tank that focuses on a range of public policy issues, including technology, education and the economy.

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In addition, the Education Data Initiative says the average cost of college in the United States has more than doubled in the 21st century.

With that price tag increasing, many Gen Zers say they've been left with no choice but to leave the college path. Many say living with their parents until they can pay off their college debt isn't an option.

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Nitzan Pelman is founder of Climb Hire, a company that helps low-income and overlooked people break into new careers. She says many young people say graduating from college with a six-figure debt is a non-starter.

"It's not a secret that the cost of college has gone up so dramatically in the last decade that it's really cost prohibitive at this point," she says.

Pelman says pursuing skilled trades can also help "level the playing field," especially for young people from less-privileged backgrounds and for people of color.

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"We don't see a lot of Black men in construction, but more Latino men in construction and you don't see many women in construction. Social capital is a really big gatekeeper and a door-opener for accessing high-quality jobs and helping people break into certain industries," she says.

In 2021, President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Since then, he's been traveling the country promoting the law, which he says will open up thousands of new jobs in trades.

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"you can expect to get your hands dirty and that's ok".

The high cost of college isn't the only factor driving many young people toward skilled trades. With the use of artificial intelligence on the rise, many Gen Zers see manual labor as less vulnerable to the emerging technology than white-collar alternatives. They also say vocational schools are a straight path to well-paying jobs.

Pelman says increasing salaries and new technologies in fields such as welding, plumbing and machine tooling are giving trade professions a face-lift, making them more appealing to the younger crowd.

"There are a lot of vocational jobs out there that are pretty attractive — HVAC repair and installation, electricians, solar panel installer — there's so much demand for wind turbine installers who, in many cases, make more than $100,000 a year — so there's a lot of demand for manual labor," she stresses.

Diego Aguilar works at a trade center at East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, Calif. Marla Aufmuth/JVS hide caption

Diego Aguilar works at a trade center at East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, Calif.

That was the case for 25-year-old Diego Aguilar, who says a traditional desk job was out of the question for him. Aguilar now works full time at a trade center at East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, Calif., after going through the JVS training program.

"When I went into a trade program I learned how much money I could make performing a very specific kind of work. You need mechanics, you need machinists, you need carpenters, operators you need painters. You can expect to get your hands dirty and that's OK," Aguilar says.

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Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows the number of students enrolled in vocational-focused community colleges increased 16% from 2022 to 2023.

As for Kirby, he says his mission is to keep raising awareness about what he calls the "toolbelt generation."

"Where they can walk out of the school of hard knocks, pick an industry, work your 10 years, take your punches, take your licks and hopefully you're bringing jobs and careers back to the community," he says.

When asked if he regrets his decision to go into skilled trades, Kirby chuckles. "Not for a second," he says.

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