Only 36 per cent of UK employers have invested in AI-enabled technologies like industrial robots, chat bots, smart assistants and cloud computing over the past five years, according to a nationally representative survey from the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit). The survey was carried out between November 2021 and June 2022, with a second wave underway.
Academics at the University of Leeds, with colleagues at the Universities of Sussex and Cambridge, led the research, finding that just 10 per cent of employers who hadn’t already invested in AI-enabled technologies were planning to invest in the next two years.
The new data also points to a growing skills problem. Less than 10 per cent of employers anticipated a need to make an investment in digital skills training in the coming years, despite 75 per cent finding it difficult to recruit people with the right skills. Almost 60 per cent of employers reported that none of their employees had received formal digital skills training in the past year.
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