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AI PRINCIPLES TO ACT AS COMPREHENSIVE ROADMAP FOR BUSINESS TALENT DEVELOPMENT
SCHOOL : Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM) has launched a comprehensive set of AI principles that clarifies the school’s stance towards the technology, while seeking to serve as a starting point for educational innovation and a roadmap for talent development. The Antai Declaration on Business Talent Cultivation in the AI Era consists of 10 core principles, encompassing values, capabilities, teaching practice and social responsibility. “This declaration represents a one-year collective research effort and reform consensus on AI-era business talent cultivation,” said Fangruo Chen, ACEM dean and a member of the International Management Board at AMBA & BGA. “It fully demonstrates ACEM’s global strategic vision rooted in Chinese educational practices.” On the side of capabilities, there is a focus on developing interdisciplinary breadth and integrating human competencies, including logical reasoning. For example, one principle, entitled The Primacy of Learning, argues that “only through continuous cognitive refinement and in-depth thinking can humans maintain subjective initiative, independent judgment and creativity.”
Another principle advocates for emphasising problem-oriented learning approaches rooted in real-world practice. “Business schools should transform from pure knowledge-teaching institutions into practical platforms for solving real industrial problems,” it states, adding that this will allow students to “acquire substantive knowledge and practical wisdom”. The role of the instructor must adapt by embracing interactive, collaborative classrooms and innovative pedagogies that integrate AI tools. Principles relating to social responsibility, meanwhile, link to ACEM’s commitment to cultivating responsible leaders and the view that “humans are always the primary subjects of decision-making and responsibility”. ACEM has a longstanding belief in the importance of AI skills for business, launching an AI MBA programme in 2020 and establishing more than 30 industry research teams on AI’s integration into business since 2019 through its Institute of Industry Research. This year, meanwhile, it co-founded the OPC Talent Incubation Centre to bring forward a new model for upskilling professionals in the AI age. TBD
8 Ambition • ISSUE 4 • 2026
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