we build the capabilities and the resilience assessment and to shift focus away education and academia. It is also are opportunities to keep learners to navigate the exciting times ahead. from knowledge acquisition to the vital to preserve the speci昀椀city and connected to apps that provide skill of learning itself: how we teach credibility of any proposed educational updated knowledge as a function of Below we have assembled a series of our people to learn. Thought must be content. For educators, this will continuing and lifelong learning. high-level recommendations for Swiss given to the societal and psychological require the acquisition of new skills policymakers, business leaders, and impact on people that these changes and competencies, and represents an providers of continuing education. It is not are likely to have. opportunity to provide more added “Critical thinking capabilities have our aim to provide granular instructions, value. always been at the core of what we teach but rather to provide useful and evidence- • Switzerland has the duty and obligation as educators, and GenAI won’t change backed guidelines that will empower to forge ahead in the ethical adoption • New forms of personalized learning that. If anything, as we adapt to these new senior decision-makers to chart the course and use of GenAI as we foster that speak to individual needs, technologies, and we teach and work with ahead of us, and position Switzerland innovation. We believe that Switzerland interests, speeds, skills, and them, that ability to think critically about where we need to be for our digital future. could have a leading role to play on the motivations will be enabled by what they can do for us and what we can global stage. GenAI and will become a priority expect from them becomes even more Recommendations for for continuing education providers important.” Recommendations in terms of investment and delivery. Swiss policymakers for Swiss providers of GenAI is a tool that will be an enabler Martin Rajman, EPFL • Now is the time to act. Switzerland to do so, however it is not an end in cannot squander the opportunity to continuing education itself. Educators and administrators take a lead on legislating for GenAI must embrace the fact that GenAI is a “To ensure Switzerland remains in ways that support innovation, • Demand for continuing education reality and adapt learning journeys to competitive, there needs to be a universal growth, and competitiveness while across sectors, especially in the areas incorporate modern approaches to its plan for bringing more awareness into safeguarding privacy and other risks. of AI, digital, and critical thinking, is usage where AI-human collaboration is the workforce about how to properly set to increase dramatically. Providers hugely bene昀椀cial. and effectively leverage GenAI. In doing • Now is also the time to brace ourselves of continuing education must evolve • Reinforcing critical thinking and so, there will be universal advantages for an explosion in demand for new rapidly to meet this demand. Major providing holistic delivery of training for the Swiss economy and society such skills along with the massive shift shifts in the labor market and society around biases and truth are all crucial as new innovations, entrepreneurial in education and training that will brought on by GenAI technologies to mitigate the associated risks of using ventures, and productivity gains. We have ensue. Policymakers must grasp that are inevitable. To be successful, GenAI. a responsibility to make sure no one gets education can no longer be static the associated labor market left out or left behind.” and that constant and continuous transformation and required adoption • Educators should also explore the upskilling is set to become a way by the population at large will require use of GenAI as they reimagine Sarah Toms, IMD of life going forward. As legacy new forms of training, awareness learning journeys. A goal should be raising, and support. quali昀椀cations become increasingly ongoing access to learning materials obsolete, policymakers must work in • There is a pressing need to adapt beyond the classroom and even after tandem with educators to reformulate the teaching practices of continuing courses or classes conclude. There