Overview
- Empire State Development will roll out an AI workforce program to train low-income New Yorkers and connect them with internships and jobs at New York tech companies.
- The agency will also work through Entrepreneurship Assistance Centers to provide AI training for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
- The commission includes AI experts, workers’ advocates and business leaders who will advise the governor directly.
- Hochul said the group will deliver recommendations that can be implemented by executive action, agency policy or in the next state budget, though no deadline was set.
- Comptroller Tom DiNapoli separately asked 100 pension fund companies to disclose how AI is changing jobs, with firms such as Visa, Morgan Stanley, IBM and Verizon seeking meetings.