Work Shift: Has the AI Hiring Boom Gone Bust?
A facial recognition system is demonstrated on a screen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.
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The hype around AI and tools like ChatGPT remains at a fever pitch, but the job market for AI specialists is coming back down to earth, according to exclusive data shared with Work Shift. Revelio Labs, whose economists crunch all sorts of workplace-related numbers, found that job postings for AI-related technology jobs — like machine-learning engineers or senior data scientists — have become more scarce in recent months.