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AI Adoption Surges Across Workplaces, Exposing Skills Gaps and Legal Fault Lines

Fresh evidence shows AI reshaping recruitment, exposing white‑collar tasks to automation, prompting a training rethink.

Overview

  • A Computrabajo study reports that 80% of Mexican companies already use AI in hiring, with widespread applications in screening, evaluation and onboarding.
  • New MicrosoftCornell research finds generative tools can perform up to 98% of tasks in some professions, especially language‑based roles such as translation and writing.
  • Regional leaders and industry panels call for continuous upskilling as BAIC data show 57% of Basque organizations have trained staff yet a shortfall of 1,144 AI specialists persists.
  • A penal court in Esquel annulled a conviction after detecting generative AI text in the ruling, while bar associations train lawyers on human oversight, bias and data protection.
  • Information integrity faces new pressure as a private analysis estimates 52% of new web articles are AI‑generated and experts warn deepfakes are now indistinguishable to the human eye.