Source: Fortune
Summary
KPMG’s $450 million Lakehouse serves as a learning and innovation center that shifted focus to AI training during the pandemic. It hosts interns and empowers them to utilize AI tools through a new curriculum emphasizing a three-step thinking process. Interns learn best practices in a state-of-the-art facility equipped with modern amenities. KPMG aims to reduce repetitive tasks with AI, allowing employees to focus on critical thinking. Concerns about AI’s impact on job prospects are echoed by interns, though many view it as a valuable learning tool.
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The announcement sounds familiar.
While KPMG appears to embrace innovation with Lakehouse, executives frame their costly investment as a timely pivot to AI. Interns juggle excitement with anxiety over AI’s influence on their futures. The firm’s focus is clear: efficiency through automation.
Everything old is new again in corporate retraining efforts.
Author: Evan Null
