‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat

Patrick Ciriello. ‘You hear about people who hit rock bottom. Well, I was there.’ Photograph: John Tully/The Guardian

When Patrick Ciriello lost his job and couldn’t find work for nearly a year, his family’s foundation crumbled.

“You hear about people who hit rock bottom,” Ciriello told the Guardian. “Well, I was there.”