Letter: Clark County's AI training needs a judgment test

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Clark College’s October 21 workshop on AI use arrived at a useful moment. Your report on Vancouver’s business forum captured concern about AI’s effect on local jobs. Clark County’s newly adopted growth plan anticipates 73,500 additional jobs by 2045. Employers and educators should agree on what competent AI use looks like before training becomes a box to check.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

One practical exercise is to give learners a plausible but flawed AI recommendation. Ask them to find the error, verify it against a reliable source, and identify who must approve the corrected decision. A manufacturing trainee might catch an invented safety specification. A customer service trainee might catch a false promise about a refund.

Clark College’s advanced manufacturing program already connects training with local employers. Those employers could supply realistic cases and evaluate how trainees handle mistakes.

The useful graduation question is simple: can students detect and correct an AI mistake that could cost a customer, coworker, or employer money? A training certificate should mean they can.

Gleb Tsipursky

Columbus, Ohio

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, a behavioral scientist, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results (Georgetown University Press, 2026). https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/aibook