AI and the Future of Skills, Volume 1
Capabilities and Assessments
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are major breakthrough technologies that are transforming the economy and society. The OECD’s Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Skills (AIFS) project is developing a programme to assess the capabilities of AI and robotics, and their impact on education and work.
This volume reports on the first step of the project: identifying which capabilities to assess and which tests to use in the assessment. It builds on an online expert workshop that explored this question from the perspectives of both psychology and computer science. The volume consists of expert contributions that review skills taxonomies and tests in different domains of psychology, and efforts in computer science to assess AI and robotics. It provides extensive discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and outlines directions for the project. The report can therefore be a resource for the research community of multiple fields and policy makers who wish to obtain deeper insight into the complexity of machine capabilities.
Skills assessments in education
This chapter describes skills typically included in large-scale educational assessments and discusses how such assessments can be used for measuring the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). It focuses on two major skill domains covered in educational assessments: core domain skills such as mathematics, reading and science literacy, and transversal skills such as problem solving, collaboration and creativity. The chapter provides an overview of the skills in each domain, as well as their theoretical underpinning and measurement. In addition, it examines the role of these skill domains in occupational settings by drawing links to taxonomies of skill requirements in the workplace. The chapter concludes with recommendations regarding the use of education tests for scaling AI capabilities.