{"id":611125,"date":"2026-09-25T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611125\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:56:09","slug":"two-tier-ai-economy-is-emerging-aws-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611125\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-tier AI economy is emerging, AWS warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s an interesting tension, and also a call to action that employees might be moving faster than their organisations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help address the local AI skills shortage, AWS announced the launch of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reseller.co.nz\/article\/4224612\/aws-launches-business-certification-to-help-boost-local-ai-skills.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first AI certification for business leaders<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report set out three foundations for how AI adoption can be turned into economy-wide transformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is to make AI strategy practical. This means helping businesses identify use cases, fund, measure, and scale what works, especially in industries with complex operating environments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second is build a future-ready workforce. That would involve expanding certification-linked training pathways, measuring the effectiveness of skills programmes, and harnessing the self-directed learning already underway among New Zealanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third recommendation is to help organisations prepare for the next wave of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAccelerate adoption in the sectors with the most to gain, such as agriculture and healthcare, by making early-adopter results visible, building tailored skills pathways, and ensuring guidance reflects the operating realities of each industry,\u201d Bohnet explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Partners play a crucial role in helping local business bridge these gaps, Bohnet said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPartners are super critical and relevant for us, especially in New Zealand, where a lot of our customers are dependent on expertise from specialists and partners. So, [they\u2019re] a very important part of the network we\u2019re building and the community we\u2019re nurturing here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s an interesting tension, and also a call to action that employees might be moving faster than their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-611125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}