“Some job-training programs are moving quickly to adapt to the A.I. coding era. Per Scholas, a national nonprofit that prepares lower-income workers for careers in technology, overhauled its curriculum last year.
The training program — a mix of online and in-person instruction — now offers an ‘A.I. fundamentals’ course. Then, after the software engineering students learn all the basics of programming, they get hands-on experience using an A.I. assistant to write software applications.
‘We’re encouraging them to really embrace it, understand its importance, because A.I. is pretty much necessary to be relevant in the work force of the future,’ said Bolaji Saibu, a Per Scholas vice president who oversees course design.”