In today’s rapidly evolving world, skill acquisition is now a crucial component of learning for the future. As technology advances and industrialization brings about automation, the market needs people with adaptable sets of skills that can deal with the complexities of the workforce in the present era. Employability is not the only area where skills enhance one’s life; skills also facilitate personal development, innovation, and survival. Why Skills Matter in Future Education The future of education is shifting from traditional rote learning to skill-based learning. This approach emphasizes the development of practical abilities that can be applied in real-world scenarios. Skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and digital literacy are becoming essential for students to thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. Key Skills for Future Success

How we are navigating the role AI does and doesn’t play in our mission to deepen understanding. Here’s a conundrum we’ve been wrestling with here at Medium: The vast majority of AI-generated writing is bad and lazy slop, we can all agree. At the same time, it’s pointless to pretend there aren’t good use cases for AI tools, even in the writing world. So how can we square that while building Medium to be the best place to read and write human stories on the internet? We want to start a conversation with our community about how we can use AI to help writers tell human stories and where we should place boundaries. As you read through this, think about how these principles feel to you, if there’s anything that could be useful, or if there’s anything we’re missing. Below are four sections: A quick disclaimer before you read any further: There is no world in which Medium is meant to be a home for a story generated by some large language model with a single click. There is also nothing inevitable about the way we use AI, which is why your feedback matters so much to us right now. How our position on AI has changed in the past two years Our mission and our business model at Medium are the same: to deepen understanding. For writers to succeed on Medium, for readers to enjoy Medium stories, and for Medium to continue, this requires real stories — human stories, written from human experience and with human wisdom. So then what is the value of artificial intelligence, and what are the pitfalls to avoid? Is there a way to use AI to deepen understanding, or help writers tell their human stories? Two years ago, we thought the value to writers and readers was less than zero. The AI companies had leached value from your writing without offering consent, credit, or compensation. Then they enabled a wave of spam that tried to replace your writing with hallucinated slop. As we’ve continued working on making Medium the best place to read and write, we’ve noticed and heard from our readers and writers that some use of AI is starting to be useful. We also are finding uses in our own work. In our recent surveys, more than half of Medium readers are using AI tools in some capacity. AI is a tool that exists in the world. We want to make sure that we explore all possible options to make Medium better for readers and writers. Here’s how we’re starting to do so with AI, both in the principles that we take into consideration and how we’re currently using AI at Medium already. Principles that support our mission, our writers, and our readers Medium is Humans First. We’ve found that leads to three principles that help us make decisions about artificial intelligence. How we apply these principles In every decision we make to build and improve Medium, including those that involve AI, we try to maximize one or more of our three principles to prioritize human stories, incentives for writers, and agency for readers. Here is how we currently apply those principles. Human stories first Incentives for writers Agency for readers How we have used AI so far This is a list of the ways we currently use AI tools within the Medium reader and writer experience — both launched, in-development, and cancelled experiments — and how those uses line up with our mission and principles. (We will never shoehorn AI in just because it’s trendy — if we decide to use it, it’s because it serves a purpose that aligns with our three principles.)