Taiwanese authorities have set a target of producing 500,000 artificial intelligence professionals by 2040, with an approach combining university education and retraining of the existing workforce under review.
Taiwan has framed its AI workforce goal as a long-term plan, centred on securing 500,000 AI professionals by 2040.
광고 문의 · 300×250Measured against Taiwan's total employed population, the headcount target is not small. It is too large to fill with new graduates alone, so retraining and conversion programmes for those already working are likely to make up a substantial share of the plan.
Taiwan has a deep workforce base in semiconductor manufacturing and design. Extending that base toward AI applications is cited as the plan's realistic starting point.
How 'professional' is defined will be decisive in execution, however. Research staff who build models and applied staff who use tools require very different training periods and methods.
Industry figures note that demand concentrates in particular job families. Shortages in less visible areas such as data engineering and systems integration are, they argue, the real bottleneck.
Korea and Taiwan face the same recruiting market in parts of semiconductors and AI. For technical workers among Korea's Sinophone residents who move between the two, mutual recognition of qualifications remains a practical concern.
