The tools to get ahead of AI disruption already exist — we just need to use them differently

Bijal Shah is the CEO of Guild, America’s leading talent development solution that helps unlock the potential of the workforce. Zoe Weintraub Barrett is the Vice President of Public Partnerships at Guild, where she leads workforce development strategy and partnerships with state and local governments to advance Guild’s mission. Guild is a partner of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.

The workers most vulnerable to AI-driven displacement are not job seekers. They are already on our payroll. And unless we act now, economic instability will follow.

Dozens of proposals have emerged to address what is fast becoming a GDP-level problem. Some ideas are sweeping; others are tactical. What unites them: urgency. AI is already reshaping jobs inside offices, hospitals, factories, and warehouses. Headlines about AI-linked layoffs confirm the transformation is already underway.

Time is running out — and the answer isn’t to wait while new systems are built. It’s to redirect the systems we already have in tandem.

The United States does not lack workforce funding. More than $250 billion flows annually through federal workforce-development programs. Employers spend tens of billions more........

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