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After the OECD Global Forum heard that AI quality review itself creates overhead and that AI-enabled workers may increasingly need to check AI agents, IOWL argues that productivity will depend on whether judgement and responsibility are exercised by individuals at the point of use or pushed upwards into management.
AI is increasing what people can do faster than society and institutions can develop the Calibre with which that Capability is exercised. IOWL argues that this widening gap between Capability and Calibre is becoming a productivity problem for employers, universities and economies.
IOWL says the reported Australian Government AI-agent incident raises a wider organisational question: how are judgement, incentives and values embedded upstream into what organisations create, deploy and oversee?
Two new authored publications examine different sides of the same problem: what happens when technological capability expands faster than human judgement, and who decides which values should govern increasingly capable AI systems?
The updated IOWL university model separates whole-population access from individual participation, combining lifelong My World access, Touchstone Calibre Awareness and governed progression with institution-level onboarding and evidence visibility.
IOWL responds to Universities UK's Future Jobs Roadmap by distinguishing workplace experience from employability and arguing that Capability, Competency and Calibre need to develop together.
IOWL has confirmed virtual participation in the OECD Global Forum on Productivity Annual Conference in October, continuing an engagement sequence across Education, Integrity and Productivity.
A new IOWL executive briefing proposes Calibre as a researchable human multiplier in the conversion of human capital, capability and competency into realised productive performance.
IOWL is participating in the 2026 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum in Paris, where the OECD is examining integrity not only as a safeguard but also in relation to performance, resilience, innovation and long-term value creation.
IOWL has submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee, setting out its Capability, Competency and Calibre model and a series of proposals for examining the human determinants of productive performance.
Beyond Graduate Outcomes sets out an IOWL definition of employability as a continuing capacity and distinguishes Capability, Competency and Calibre as complementary dimensions of readiness for work and progression within it.
IOWL is participating in the 8th OECD Global Forum on the Future of Education and Skills in Bratislava, where curriculum transformation in the era of AI is being examined alongside student agency, attitudes and values.
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