Computers and the Future of Skill Demand by Stuart W. Elliott published by OECD (2017).
“Computer scientists are working on reproducing all human skills with computer capabilities. The development of these capabilities will have farreaching implications for work and education.
This report describes the results of an exploratory project to understand current computer capabilities with respect to one set of human skills: the three general cognitive skills of literacy, numeracy and problem solving with computers.2 The project uses the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills, derived from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), to understand changes in skill demand in the recent past and then to assess the computer capabilities that could change skill demand further in the near future.
The three cognitive skills measured by PIAAC are developed during compulsory education and broadly used by adults at work and in their personal lives. The test involves practical problems that would be familiar to most adults who have completed secondary education and live in developed countries. The test does not assess actual tasks used in specific occupations, but the questions are designed to be similar to the kind of tasks that occur in many different occupations that require use of the three skills in question.”
