Introduction

It is barely two years since ChatGPT was launched, followed by a whole gamut of new chatbots (Rudolph et al., 2023), and
already a great deal has changed, not only in the education sector but throughout industry and the world at large. How
artificial intelligence (AI) will impact vocational education and training (VET), as well as job opportunities for graduates and
the nature of work in the future can only be guessed at. But while specific consequences of generative and other forms of
AI cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty, it is still possible for us to anticipate the conceptual shift that may
come about through its rapid development, and to prepare ourselves intellectually for tackling the new challenges facing
us in the coming decades.

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