{"id":180338,"date":"2026-01-21T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/study-finds-up-to-1-5-million-virginia-jobs-could-be-affected-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:00:09","slug":"study-finds-up-to-1-5-million-virginia-jobs-could-be-affected-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/study-finds-up-to-1-5-million-virginia-jobs-could-be-affected-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds up to 1.5 million Virginia jobs could be affected by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/article\/news\/local\/virginia\/virginia-study-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-market\/291-ff21624f-f887-4cfd-a0b9-40d57a4b1623\">Study finds up to 1.5 million Virginia jobs could be affected by AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/article\/news\/local\/virginia\/virginia-study-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-market\/291-ff21624f-f887-4cfd-a0b9-40d57a4b1623\">https:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/article\/news\/local\/virginia\/virginia-study-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-market\/291-ff21624f-f887-4cfd-a0b9-40d57a4b1623<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-21 12:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.13newsnow.com\">www.13newsnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Virginia Chamber Foundation\u2019s AI report estimates up to 1.5 million jobs could be affected by artificial intelligence over the next several years.<\/li>\n<li>The report highlights the workforce&#8217;s exposure to AI impacts, particularly in technology, finance, professional services, and government contracting.<\/li>\n<li>More than 80% of Virginia businesses surveyed are already using or considering AI tools, although many report lack of AI training resources.<\/li>\n<li>The demand for AI-related employment continues to grow, with July 2025 recording the highest monthly total of AI job postings in the state.<\/li>\n<li>Younger workers under 35 years old are specifically noted to be highly impacted, with nearly 500,000 in occupations likely to undergo AI-driven changes.<\/li>\n<li>The report makes 34 policy recommendations focused on five priorities: AI literacy and training, worker support for changing tasks, reskilling pathways, aiding businesses in adopting AI tools, and ensuring infrastructure supports AI-driven growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds up to 1.5 million Virginia jobs could be affected by AI https:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/article\/news\/local\/virginia\/virginia-study-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-market\/291-ff21624f-f887-4cfd-a0b9-40d57a4b1623 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.13newsnow.com\/assets\/WVEC\/images\/d1715eda-5281-4d46-b3d4-d8c6afa3bac2\/20260121T170238\/d1715eda-5281-4d46-b3d4-d8c6afa3bac2_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-180338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180340,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180338\/revisions\/180340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}