Thailand upskills for AI era

Students need to gain digital skills for future jobs, write Post Reporters

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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms industries, Thailand is racing to prepare its workforce, with educators and businesses joining forces to equip people to use AI not as a replacement but to enhance human capability.

In the “Bridging Academia and Industry with Al Innovation” forum hosted recently by SkillUp, a global platform empowering students' careers, at Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Greg Watkins, Executive Director of the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand, said people cannot use Al as a substitute for learning.

"What we need now is to apply what students learn in schools to using Al as a tool across industries, so any employee can join a business and hit the ground running," he said.

Yean Feng Yue, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at IBM Asia Pacific, said learning should not be outsourced to AI.

The future belongs to those who can work with technology, she said. As AI takes on certain tasks, she said, humans must continue learning and move up the value chain.

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