With talent remaining difficult to acquire, employers are scaling back their educational requirements for new hires. But a new factor appears to be influencing this collective decision: the rise of artificial intelligence as a substitute for a degreed education.

That's what Cengage Group found when it queried 1,000 hiring decision makers for the 2023 edition of The Employability Survey.

Cengage also surveyed 1,000 individuals who had attained some type of formal educational degree. It asked them, among other questions, what effect artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT had on their preparations for employment. The answer: Quite a bit.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.