World Youth Skills Day 2025: How AI is shaping next-generation jobs
World Youth Skills Day 2025: How will artificial intelligence create the jobs of the next generation?
In light of the global race to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, empowering youth is an essential pillar for building more just and stable societies. Artificial intelligence is emerging today as a pivotal tool in developing the skills that young people need so that they can adapt to the requirements of the era of digital transformation. By employing this technology in the service of developing human capabilities, progress can be accelerated in the areas of quality education, decent work, and industrial innovation.
Based on this vision, on July 15 of each year, the world celebrates World Youth Skills Day, a day approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014; Emphasizing the importance of preparing young people for the labor marketAnd entrepreneurship. The celebration of 2025 carries a special significance. It comes under the slogan “Empowering Youth with Artificial Intelligence and Digital Skills,” and it is a celebration that comes at a pivotal moment witnessing rapid digital transformations that are reshaping the jobs of the future.
From this standpoint, theEarth Guards platform seeks to address this year’s theme of World Youth Skills Day from a balanced perspective, examining ways for young people to advance and enhance their skills in the fields of artificial intelligence, and highlights how these tools can contribute to shaping their future in a positive and fair manner.
What is the importance of artificial intelligence?
With the progress ofThe Fourth Industrial RevolutionSmart technologies have become an integral part of the global labor market, and reports of the World Economic Forum – whichHeld earlier this year – indicates that skills associated with artificial intelligence are changing 25% faster than traditional jobs; Which requires educational institutions and governments to quickly respond to these transformations by redesigning training and vocational qualification curricula.
UN indicators confirm that young people have become more accepting of these technologies and are more searching for artificial intelligence jobs. A United Nations report showed that 93.2% of teenagers in 36 countries have positive impressions of artificial intelligence, and 44% of children actually participate in using generative artificial intelligence techniques, and more than half of them use them to perform their schoolwork. Which reflects a natural integration with a changing digital environment.
The jobs of the future are becoming digital
Based on these indicators, international initiatives are accelerating to close the digital skills gap and enable young people to take full advantage of artificial intelligence tools. The United Nations – in partnership with a number of international institutions – launched the “Digital Skills for Decent Jobs for Youth” program, which aims to train five million young people by 2030, with a focus on basic and advanced skills.
Organizations such as UNICEF and UNDP strengthen these efforts by empowering the most vulnerable youth groups, especially in low-resource areas, with special attention to girls and women. These initiatives cover the areas of digital entrepreneurship, developing smart tools, and enhancing the enabling environment necessary to achieve fair participation in the digital economy.
Empowering youth through developmentSustainable
The importance of artificial intelligence is clear in that it is a strategic tool for reducing development gaps, if it is used fairly and comprehensively. Because it contributes to reducing dropout rates from education and training, and also contributes to aligning training programs with the needs of the renewed labor market, and even opens new horizons for professions that did not exist a few years ago.
In this context, World Youth Skills Day comes to constitute a collective call to all actors – from governments, the private sector, educational institutions and civil society – to work together to harness artificial intelligence in building a modern skills system that does not exclude anyone, does not differentiate between one group and another, and believes that every young person is capable of creativity if given the appropriate tools.
And based on the above, you see an institutionEarth GuardsWe have become in a world where innovations are rapid, and in which the gap between what is possible and what is reality is narrowing; Empowering youth with artificial intelligence emerges as an inherent development right. Societies that realize this fact and invest in it will undoubtedly build a more sustainable and just future.
Despite the complexities of artificial intelligence, it is a bridge that transports new generations to broader spaces of freedom and creativity, provided that it is managed with a human vision that takes into account ethics, ensures digital justice, and directs technology to serve humanity, not the other way around. Therefore, World Youth Skills Day should be a practical opportunity to renew our commitment to young people as the standard bearers of sustainable development in the age of artificial intelligence.
