Leading the Future: Topic Voting Form
Please select the 3x topics that you would like to see discussed in the roundtable.
1. Build Everyday AI Literacy
- Increased Confidence: Ensure UK businesses remain competitive through the widespread adoption of everyday AI tools to increase workplace productivity.
- Non technical AI: Highlight the importance of simple AI tools and services in non-technical roles, and in non-tech companies.
2. Rethink & Reform Education
- Earlier and Deeper: Integrate digital and analytical skills into primary and secondary school curricula.
- Continuous Education: Developing lifelong learning frameworks to reskill workers for AI-enabled roles and automation transitions.
- Engage with Teachers: Build confidence, understanding and skills for new and established teachers.
3. Support Industry-Led Training Initiatives
- Industry Aligned Priorities: Involve businesses in setting out the skills they actually need and then support partnerships that involve businesses in the delivery of up-to-date training.
- Ever evolving: Ensure qualifications frameworks are flexible enough to allow for the fast-changing nature of AI.
- Future-Ready Apprenticeships: Expanding apprenticeships to include hands-on AI training for young people and career changers.
4. Address Workforce Transition and Job Displacement
- Reskilling: Support workers displaced by automation through reskilling and career transition services.
- Job Adaptation: Identifying roles at risk and creating targeted pathways for workers to transition into AI-enabled positions.
- On-Shore Key Skills: Reverse the off-shoring trends by upskilling workers across the UK to provide more cost-effective home-grown talent.
5. Identify and Bridge Digital Divides
- Breaking the Cycle: Leverage technology skills to lift individuals and communities out of digital poverty.
- Regional inequality: Ensure geographic inclusivity across all parts of the UK nations and regions.
- Equity in Access: Promoting fair work practices and ensuring equal access to training programs for all communities, particularly those most affected by automation, such as female workers.
6. Attract and Retain Global AI Talent
- Global Appeal: Positioning the UK as a leading destination for AI professionals.
- Immigration Reform: Simplifying visa processes to attract and retain top international talent.
- Regional Benefits: Ensuring that regional areas, not just London, benefit from global talent inflow.
7. Encourage Regional Clusters and Development
- Knowledge Towns: Creating regional AI hubs that foster knowledge-sharing and collaboration between communities.
- Social Infrastructure: Expand partnerships between business, universities and local government to develop and fund initiatives that benefit the wider community.
- Diffusion by Design: Plan for knowledge transfer of everyday and technical skills from new data centres and research hubs into the local eco-system.
8. Increase Public Awareness, Understanding and Adoption
- Combating Misinformation: Addressing public concerns about job displacement and existential AI risks with more information.
- Highlight and Champion AI for Good: Highlight the many positive ways that AI based tools and services are already helping society.
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