Small bank, big moves: How a Maine-based bank is bringing over a thousand employees on its AI journey - Tearsheet

"Through its recent partnership with Northeastern University's Roux Institute, Bangor has announced a two-year program called 'Accelerating Insights' which will focus on building data fluency and skills in ethical AI usage among its 1100 employees through customized learning modules built by The Roux Institute, a research center affiliated with the university."

"The Accelerating Insights program kicked off with an assessment of the bank conducted by The Roux Institute to gauge where the bank's employees stood in their understanding of AI at the moment."

"This double bind can be avoided, though. Banks' strategies should facilitate their employees' adaptation to a Gen AI future."

"For some hardcore proponents of AI, the only way to avoid job loss is to upskill, and people ought to have started yesterday. Which shifts the responsibility from the employer to the employee, the very party most at risk."

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