If you are a "leader" trying to hire a "skilled" AI worker, <i>you are probably an idiot</i>. It's literally a brand new field! - you are choosing the most limp-wristed, back-seat response possible. The only skill you are going to hire for is the ability to lie on a resume.<p>Unfortunately, I think this myopia extends to the entire breadth of the "skills gap". Any executive complaining is kind of admitting <i>they</i> lack the skills to actually manage humans.<p>What <i>actual</i> leaders are doing is the same thing they have always done - hire smart, enthusiastic people and give them the resources they need. The whole point is to <i>recognize potential talent</i> - not just reading the tag and slotting them into thankless positions then complaining when they don't fit. But this requires trust, and flexibility, trial and error, and actual knowledge. And certainly no executive would want <i>themselves</i> treated in such a way.<p>But this kind of leadership is hard and requires admitting failure occasionally - so for some reason spending 3 months cross-training a programmer to be an IT Operations specialist is seen as inferior to waiting 9 months to overpay someone new.