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‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment

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Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week courseIn a youth centre opposite Preston bus station, the UK government is trying to address two of the greatest challenges facing the national economy: AI and youth unemployment.The hope is that one will solve – rather than cause – the other. […]

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The Guardian view on the changed world of job interviews: missing the human factor | Editorial

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Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AIAlmost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI bot, according to recent research, leading many to give up in frustration. As one despairing applicant lamented in the pages of the Guardian a few months ago:

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Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

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Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisisYoung people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join “AI boot camps” where they harness the technology to get a foothold in the workplace.The government’s latest attempt to address the

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An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg | Brief letters

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Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying wellYour article (Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model, 10 August) quotes Mark Zuckerberg as saying: “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and

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Labour will make AI ‘work for the workers’, says Liz Kendall

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Technology secretary promises to support people whose jobs are swept away by automationLiz Kendall has insisted Labour will make artificial intelligence “work for workers”, and not abandon people whose jobs are swept away by its rapid advance.With public fears mounting about the impact of AI on employment, particularly for young people, the technology secretary claimed

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