COLUMBUS, OHIO-Vermont's registered-apprenticeship system is built around employer training, supervised experience and progressive skill.
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's August update found the employment shortfall for U.S. workers ages 22–25 in highly AI-exposed occupations widened from 15% in the July 2025 data vintage to 19% by June 2026.
Southern Vermont employers should apply apprenticeship logic to AI. For every recurring task automated away, give junior staff a paired assignment that requires checking evidence, resolving an exception, interviewing a stakeholder, or presenting a recommendation to a supervisor.
Call it an AI training multiplier: Every hour saved should create a faster route into judgment.
Efficiency matters. So does producing the experienced workers the region will need five years from now.
Gleb Tsipursky
Columbus, Ohio
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