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POLICY BRIEF
Bridging the AI skills gap: Is training keeping up?
Posted April 24, 2025 Reposted April 12, 2025
Key messages• Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in the workplace. The spread of AIis driving a heightened need for both specialised AI professionals and workers with a moregeneral understanding of AI.• An increasing number of OECD countries are implementing strategies and policies to supportupskilling and reskilling for AI adoption, including the introduction of publicly-funded AI‐related training programmes. However, more can be done to ensure training programmes arewell suited to prepare adults for the future AI-driven workplace.• Analysis from a subset of OECD countries reveals that only a small percentage of trainingcourses currently deliver AI content, signalling a need to scale-up supply.• The majority of programmes with some AI content currently focus on advanced AI skills. Mostcountries could benefit from offering a broader range of courses to promote general AIliteracy.• Policymakers should consider expanding and better targeting initiatives to develop bothgeneral AI literacy and advanced AI skills, including using financial and non-financial incentives,collaboration with industry, and the development of more inclusive learning pathways
Brookins Institute AI * Technology News
Commentary
It was never the keyboard
Why domain knowledge, not digital skills, determines AI productivity
Posted April 3, 2026 Reposted April 12, 2026
As AI interfaces converge on natural language, the key barrier to AI productivity is domain knowledge.
Domain expertise is appreciating, because it is the input that AI cannot supply: The ability to direct and evaluate its output.
LLMs democratize text production. They do not democratize judgment.
Sacha Alanocaand Chinasa T. Okolo
Posted April 2, 2026 Reposted April 12, 2026
India’s AI Impact Summit signaled a pivot toward a less Western-centric agenda by championing “middle powers” and AI sovereignty as a third path of influence against the traditional global order.
Despite recording 600,000 participants, the summit faced criticism for corporate capture and the physical exclusion of civil society.
As the official AI summit moves to Geneva next year, advocates are calling for a course correction to ensure that the agenda prioritizes genuine stakeholder solidarity over the interests of private corporations.