The IET’s Policy & Insight team intends responding to the DSIT consultation on upskilling workers with the tools they need for their jobs alongside AI. This relates to the draft AI Skills for Business Competency Framework, a short 27-page paper. AI is a key strand of the team’s work around Digital Futures policy.
We’d appreciate your input to our submission. The consultation is an initial step in DSIT’s work to develop guidance on skills in AI that supports industry productivity and growth. Further collaboration is planned for 2024 and we intend participating in that work too.
The questions, which relate to the Framework themes, feature on the DSIT Consultation Feedback Form – I’ve also reproduced them below for ease of reference. Each one asks for a 1-5 score (1= strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree) and any comments to illustrate the gradings.
I’d appreciate your feedback, which I will summarize in a response that tallies with the consensus, for IET approval and submission. I may hold a 1-2 hour Teams workshop between 18-20 December to go through the questions if there is sufficient interest. Please let me know if you would like to take part.
Our deadline for all responses is 9am, Wed 3 January. This is to fit in with DSIT’s own timeline.
Questions:
Personas
To what extent do you agree that this guidance:
- will support employers to understand their organisation’s AI upskilling needs and consider associated training needs?
- addresses the right learner personas for individuals within an organisation? Are there others that should be considered?
To what extent do you agree that the persona:
- ‘AI Citizen’ is well defined and represents a useful categorisation for individuals within your organisation?
- ‘AI Worker’ is well defined and represents a useful categorisation for individuals within your organisation?
- ‘AI Professional’ is well defined and represents a useful categorisation for individuals within your organisation?
- ‘AI Leader’ is well defined and represents a useful categorisation for individuals within your organisation?
Dimensions
To what extent do you agree that each dimension has been accurately articulated and contains the set of skills you would expect in the category?
- Dimension A: Data Privacy and Stewardship
- Dimension B: Definition, acquisition, engineering, architecture storage and curation
- Dimension C: Problem definition and communication
- Dimension D: Problem solving, analysis, modelling, visualisation
- Dimension E: Evaluation and Reflection
To what extent do you agree that the five dimensions of the framework address the right skills and values related to AI projects? Are there others that should be considered?
Are there any similar initiatives in your sector which we should be aware of?
Please provide any other comments or feedback not already covered above.
