AI Fluency Competencies Template

What are AI fluency competencies?

AI fluency is the ability to productively and responsibly use AI tools while implementing human judgment appropriately.

It’s not about how often an employee reaches for AI, or how many tools they use. AI fluency requires understanding the limitations of AI, applying critical thinking to the inputs and outputs of different AI tools, and knowing how to leverage it to augment one’s own impact, productivity, and capability. 

AI fluency competencies are how HR defines and scaffolds the specific AI skills and discretion that are expected of employees at different levels of the organization. They include behaviors and skills such as understanding the tools, demonstrating a desire to learn, exercising critical judgement, and creating the space to experiment.  

Why Your Company Should Make AI Fluency Part of Its Career Tracks

As AI transforms the way people work, they develop new skills that should be clarified, guided, supported, and rewarded — just like every other job competency. 

Job competencies help everyone at the organization understand what’s expected of them, and career tracks show what it takes to get to the next level. As employees grow professionally, their skills should sharpen, deepen, and lead to greater impact, so there’s a clear difference between the expectations of an entry-level employee and a senior leader. 

AI fluency competencies set the tone for what kind of AI skills are allowed, encouraged, and rewarded at each level of growth. They ensure employees have the capability to think and work alongside AI as they grow. And they ultimately help employees demonstrate how they’re producing better work, making smarter decisions, and building things that last.

What You’ll Get in This Template: 

• AI fluency competencies designed by Lattice’s people team.
• The full scaffolding of each competency at every level of an organization.
• A set of competencies for employees, and a separate one exclusively for managers.