‘Embedding AI into the Essential Digital Skills Framework’ offers evidence-based recommendations and a clear path for updating the Essential Digital Skills Framework to meet the demands of today’s rapidly evolving world of work.
This report sets out the changes required to the Essential Digital Skills Framework to address the evolving nature of workplace digital skills in the age of AI. The Framework offers consistency and common language in a period of astonishing technological change, and these practical updates will help guide learning, training, and investment to close the workforce digital skills gap.
Key findings
- Four AI skills that every worker needs: They include foundational knowledge of what AI is and how it functions, how to formulate clear instructions, how to critically evaluate AI-generated content and the ethical implications of using AI.
- How sectors are using AI differently: The report identifies how different sectors are adopting AI, their key concerns and what’s important from a skills perspective.
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Four high-level recommendations to update the Essential Digital Skills Framework : These include new AI competencies, ensuring the Framework remains sector agnostic, and a robust review process to respond to future changes.
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An AI-embedded Essential Digital Skills Framework: An update that reflects the report’s recommendations to create a framework that’s ready for our AI-enabled world of work.
“This report is clear: the current Essential Digital Skills Framework must evolve.
“We are at a pivotal moment for the UK economy. AI is already reshaping how we work and yet technology alone won’t drive transformation – it will come from people empowered to use it.”
Shaheen Sayed
Chief Commercial Officer for Reinvention Services
