The Lightcast Approach to AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work is done–and how employers find and manage workers. At Lightcast, we have 20 years of experience in guiding employers, educators, and governments in using advanced tools to develop talent. Here you’ll receive resources and guidance on how to use AI in the labor market.
Lightcast Sectors: Artificial Intelligence
Lightcast Sectors are sections of the labor market that are of particular interest but that are not easily quantifiable using traditional occupations or industry hierarchies.
Sectors are based on industry experience, and are developed by Lightcast economists and researchers in collaboration with industry experts. These sectors are often used to drive public research released by Lightcast on particular sections of the labor market.
Sectors are available in our Lightcast Analyst product, for US job postings only. Sectors may be defined with a combination of industries, occupations, skills, certifications, and more posting-based filters that are not easily replicable via a standard interface.
We recently deployed Lightcast Sector: Artificial Intelligence. It is built from work done with Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in the development of the Stanford AI Index. Primarily based on skills, this sector helps users understand the growth of AI-related skills across the labor market. This sector includes skills related to AI, Autonomous Driving, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Visual Image Recognition. [latest update: March 2024]
Using the Artificial Intelligence sector, users can view how AI skills are impacting specific parts of any segment of the labor market, including localized demand, demand within specific industries, and changes across occupations as AI becomes increasingly prevalent.
Go Beyond The Buzz
Beyond the Buzz
The Lightcast 'Beyond The Buzz' report delivers comprehensive analysis revealing that artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed hiring patterns across the world of work. The piece, based on analysis of over 1.3 billion job postings, shows that job postings including AI skills offer 28% higher salaries—nearly $18,000 more per year—than those without such capabilities.
The research analyzes specific skills based on their growth across job postings, their importance in the workforce, and their exposure to AI. This shows exactly which AI skills create value in which contexts, solving the critical challenge facing educators and workforce development leaders: moving beyond vague "AI literacy" to precise, targeted training that delivers measurable results.
The Stanford AI Index
An independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence that provides a global benchmark for how society is dealing with AI. Lightcast provides the data analysis behind the index’s examination of AI’s impact on jobs.
Mapping the AI Economy, with Brookings
Combining a set of metrics, including Lightcast job postings and profiles data, the Brookings Institute built a metric to identify AI readiness of US metro areas.
Lightcast Solutions to Help You Make Sense of AI
Via software platforms, consulting services, and data delivery mechanisms, Lightcast can help you comprehend how AI will impact your organization through data and insights.
Lightcast Talent Transform™
Create a dynamic skill architecture to navigate AI disruption. With the new Lightcast Skill Agent™, automatically update skill demand for roles.
Lightcast Skillabi™
Measure how well your institution’s academic programs map to labor market realities. Identify AI training priorities and ways to update your programs.
Professsional Services
Get tailored insights from our proprietary AI Skill Disruption Matrix for specific occupations and roles. Gain further intelligence into risk and AI adoption.
AI Skills, A Global View
The continued innovation and adoption of AI technologies is transforming the world of work. But how is this being reflected in global labor markets? Where are the changes most apparent? What are the implications for organizations as they try to plan for a future-ready workforce? The Lightcast Global AI Skills Outlook is a highly interactive page looking at employer demand for AI skills across 16 labor markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific to provide answers to these questions.
Solving Europe's AI talent equation: Lightcast x CEPS
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping Europe’s labour markets - but not evenly. This CEPS report uses Lightcast data to map AI job demand across 31 countries and skill levels, revealing sharp differences in where and what kind of AI talent is most needed.
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