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.
Questions to guide assessment of artificial intelligence systems against human performance
This chapter takes a step back from the project, reviewing practical issues around the assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) that must guide the next phase of research. It provides guidance for setting up a general analytical framework for assessing AI capabilities with regard to human skills. Questions are centred around three main issues. First, the chapter looks at how the various parameters of measurement depend on the objectives of the assessment. Second, it examines selection of tests for comparing AI and human skills. Third, it discusses selection and training of raters. The chapter concludes with a summary of issues considered in planning the study.
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