AI RESKILLING STARTS WITH CURIOSITY

€96 billion. That’s how much Irish GDP hangs in the balance if we use AI for cost-cutting instead of unlocking higher-value work.

But to ensure that happens, there’s another barrier. According to an Ibec report released yesterday, 64% of roles needing significant reskilling for the age of AI.

But how do you get more AI-native people?

One of the report's core tenets is that it takes training and curiosity. It goes as far as calling curiosity 'the capability we need to manufacture and build'.

So how do we do that? Curiosity is intrinsic. It emerges from motivated people. People with autonomy. People who belong.

And, as we’ve found while working with Ibec, AI-native people – and AI-native organisations – emerge when teams work together to rethink how the actual work gets done. It feels more like being given superpowers than attending corporate training.

And AI training done well leaves jaws on the floor. There's a buzz. Nobody stops talking about it. A new vibrancy and energy moves through the organisation. It sparks cultural evolution.

New cohorts are filled by those who have put themselves on the waiting list. The sceptics become advocates.

If you want to know what that feels like, just ask the authors at Ibec. And if you want to find out how to do that in your own organisation, ask us.

Ireland's €148 billion of AI upside belongs to organisations which find motivated groups of people to rethink the work together – who then find themselves enjoying it.

Get the full report here.

And see Ibec's press release here.