Issue Transforming education and skills for the superintelligence era

Summary

As AI, automation and the fusion of digital technology with governance drive a new wave of social and industrial change, the survey calls for a fundamental shift in how education and skills are developed. Education must move away from transmitting knowledge toward the ability to collaborate with AI, solve problems with data and keep learning continuously. Remote and hybrid work after the pandemic blurred the boundary between work and life and digitalised how tasks are performed. Because AI and automation destroy and create jobs at the same time, the need for retraining is rising, access to learning is becoming more unequal and hiring is shifting from degrees toward skills. As AI moves into professional work, lifelong learning, data literacy and agile organisation become sources of competitiveness, while Korea struggles to translate high educational attainment into labour-market success.