This chapter describes the background and purpose of the OECD’s Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Skills project, which is developing an approach to assessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics and their impact on education and work. This report represents the project’s first step to identify the capabilities to assess and the tests to use for the assessment. The chapter provides an overview of the approaches applied to date to predict the impact of technology on the future of work. It sets out a new approach and presents the project’s stages of developing a sound methodology for a systematic assessment of AI capabilities in the future. The chapter ends by presenting the structure of this report.
