Accenture is making a huge talent bet on AI—aiming to double headcount in that specialty to 80,000 employees

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“What happened in 2023, which is so interesting, is the democratization of generative AI,” Paul Daugherty, chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture, tells me. “That's really what ChatGPT did. Anybody could use it from the board member to the C-suite to the frontline employee to the student.”