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Rochester is investing in AI skills, including the Golisano Institute’s AI-and-business program. Employers should make sure those skills lead to real professional development.
Stanford’s latest analysis finds employment among U.S. workers ages 22–25 in highly AI-exposed occupations is about 19% below the pace of similarly aged workers in less-exposed work, up from a 15% gap in the July 2025 data vintage.
The best response is to automate routine preparation while moving new hires faster into verification, exceptions, testing, client communication and supervised decisions. Experienced employees should coach and review, and employers should measure time to independent competence.
Rochester’s AI advantage will depend on more than teaching people to use tools. It will depend on giving young workers enough real responsibility to learn when those tools are wrong.
Gleb Tsipursky PhD
CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results”
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Exactly. In general the public education system does a poor job of predicting what skills will be needed in the future and this is just another of them. They are at best 10 years behind the times and completely out of touch with needed technology skills. In some ways BOCES is better than the regular school system at preparing students for actual careers. High schools need to be adopting and teaching the skills needed to properly use, manage, control, and evaluate tools like AI because they will be for the rest of their lives. We did a terrible job of creating the critical thinking skills required to properly use and evaluate the use of technology tools such as social media instead putting them on a ban list or just ignoring them. As a result Social Media use is untrained, uncontrolled, and not a very valuable tool, and the tech companies that are promoting it abuse it’s algorithms for monetary gain only. If we ignore AI we will be in the same boat. It is out duty as a society to TEACH about AI. It’s powerful capability and it’s equally powerful limitations and dangers. If we don’t we put them at a disadvantage and create a worse world for ourselves. Just say no isn’t going to cut it.