The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that major employers in technology and finance increasingly expect new recruits to be "AI-literate" and have a firm grasp of how to use artificial-intelligence tools to boost their efficiency. The Globe's Vanmala Subramaniam writes that Bank of Montreal and CIBC have rolled out AI technology to their work forces at great speed over the past year, and now expect that both incoming hires and current staff can use generative AI tools in their day-to-day duties. "AI is now a core skill for anyone we are bringing into the institution," said BMO's Larissa Chaikowsky. "We want them to be fluent in being able to consume AI tools because it has become so embedded and so core in the way we work." Ms. Chaikowsky added that more than 90 per cent of BMO's 53,000 employees now use Microsoft Copilot in their jobs. Generative AI can create content, processes, images and videos based on patterns that it learns from existing data. AI technology has also improved in exponential fashion in the past six months, with AI agents such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Microsoft Copilot being able to perform complex research and organizational tasks with the right prompts from a user.