Tech industry offers AI solution to NZ’s productivity problem

Artificial intelligence could totally transform the New Zealand economy, leading to a country where no major sector faces limitations on productivity and growth due to the lack of skilled workers by 2030, a new blueprint for the rollout of the technology suggests.
In its ‘AI Blueprint for Aotearoa’, the AI Forum outlines an ambitious strategy for New Zealand to catch up to the rest of the world on adoption of AI and then become a global leader. The forum, which counts multinational tech giants, local digital firms and government departments among its members, said New Zealand needed “to start NOW and at SPEED” – “in five years it will be too late to start this journey”.