@minchoi: The US government just dropped $145M to train workers in AI, semiconductors, and nuclear energy... a...
The US government just dropped $145M to train workers in AI, semiconductors, and nuclear energy... as apprenticeships. Not college degrees. Apprenticeships. Learn while you earn. AI is officially a skilled trade now. Same category as shipbuilding and healthcare. The goal: 1 million active apprentices nationwide. Target industries: AI infrastructure, semiconductors, nuclear, defense, healthcare, IT, telecom. This is the biggest signal yet that AI jobs aren't just for Stanford grads with CS degrees. The government is building a blue-collar path into AI. The people who will deploy models, manage data centers, and run inference clusters won't all have PhDs. Some will learn on the job... funded by $145M in federal money. The AI skills gap isn't a future problem. It's a right now problem. And the government just put money behind it.