{"id":209557,"date":"2026-02-03T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/teaching-employees-to-use-ai-could-add-up-to-6-6t-to-us-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:30:11","slug":"teaching-employees-to-use-ai-could-add-up-to-6-6t-to-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/teaching-employees-to-use-ai-could-add-up-to-6-6t-to-us-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching employees to use AI could add up to $6.6T to US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/augmenting-artificial-intelligence-employees-increase-gdp\/810995\/\">Teaching employees to use AI could add up to $6.6T to US economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/augmenting-artificial-intelligence-employees-increase-gdp\/810995\/\">https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/augmenting-artificial-intelligence-employees-increase-gdp\/810995\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 11:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.supplychaindive.com\">www.supplychaindive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">3 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Augmenting jobs with artificial intelligence and upskilling employees, instead of replacing workers, could add between $4.8 trillion and $6.6 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2034, roughly 15% of current U.S. GDP at the lower range, according to new research released Jan. 19 from education company Pearson.<\/li>\n<li>However, the report found that while companies were \u201cinvesting billions worldwide on AI infrastructure and models,\u201d there were \u201cfew positive examples of enterprise-level productivity gains, outside of coding, that truly help workers and drive ROI,\u201d per a news release, which added that the return on AI investment usually targets replacing workers.<\/li>\n<li>AI has reached more than one billion users in only three years, per the release. Yet the technology is taking \u201ca growing emotional and economic toll\u201d on workers, who fear losing their jobs and their competitive edge without training accompanying their adoption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p>The report, which was released during the World Economic Forum\u2019s Annual Meeting, said that employers \u201crisk missing the productivity prize\u201d by focusing on technology deployment while neglecting the human element. Citing data from the World Economic Forum, Pearson said in the release that 59% of the global workforce will need reskilling by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>While many employees reported time saved through AI, a broader economic uplift hasn\u2019t yet occurred, per the release. Pearson\u2019s report identified what it called a critical \u201clearning gap,\u201d and said there is \u201ca missing link\u201d that prevents both employers and workers from fully realizing AI\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI will drive profound long-term change to business and industry,\u201d Pearson CEO Omar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/augmenting-artificial-intelligence-employees-increase-gdp\/810995\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching employees to use AI could add up to $6.6T to US economy https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/augmenting-artificial-intelligence-employees-increase-gdp\/810995\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/S7t35eOzzHJ4FboqCumcSPhCLaGwyDz6XH5FT71k7ss\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xNDYyMTg4MzY5LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209559,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209557\/revisions\/209559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}