New re­search has warned that Caribbean em­ploy­ers and work­ers re­main sharply di­vid­ed on the skills need­ed for an ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven econ­o­my across the re­gion .

Ac­cord­ing to the Unit­ed States based De­Vry Uni­ver­si­ty’s 2025 Bridg­ing the Gap re­port, while 85 per­cent of work­ers are con­fi­dent about their job prospects over the next five years, near­ly sev­en in 10 em­ploy­ers be­lieve their teams lack the skills need­ed to suc­ceed.

The find­ings, based on a sur­vey of more than 1,500 work­ers and 500 hir­ing man­agers, high­light the grow­ing ur­gency for prac­ti­cal AI train­ing and clear us­age poli­cies.