Safe Use of Artificial Intelligence Is a Key Skill for the Future

Proper and safe use of artificial intelligence is becoming a key skill for citizens and public administration, but in a world changing faster than ever, resilience, lifelong learning and an education system capable of keeping pace with change are equally important. This was stated at the panel “Digital Skills and the Future of Work: Preparing Citizens and Public Administration for the Digital Age,” held as part of the eighth Digital Summit of the Western Balkans, organized by the Ministry of Public Administration under the auspices of the Government of Montenegro, in partnership with the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and within Montenegro’s chairmanship of the Berlin Process. Milan Dobrijević, head of the Information Society Analysis and Planning Group at the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications in Belgrade, believes that artificial intelligence is inevitably changing everything, and that artificial intelligence twelve months ago and six months ago was something different from what it is now. Branimir Bukilić, chairman of the Board and CEO of Data Design ICT Cortex, believes that skills based on artificial intelligence technologies will be essential by 2030. From a company’s, and specifically an IT company’s, perspective, when viewed purely economically, there is no economic logic in hiring new talent straight out of university now, because junior developers and software developers have been almost replaced by artificial intelligence. “And we are talking about the critical use of artificial intelligence—not only how to use it, how to write prompts correctly and how to create an agent, but also about being very aware of what is happening, how I can influence it, and how we can use it properly and safely,” Vasić said.