Human Edge:
Creative Skills for the AI Workplace
Programme at a glance
- Level
Young adults aged 18 to 35
- Duration
4 hours + 7-day digital learning journey
- Cohort Size
Up to 30 participants per workshop
- Format
In person at your campus or at our Creative Lab in Woodlands
What participants will take away:
A Human Edge Skills Passport, an EDIT Design Thinking® mini-workbook, an AI and human skills one-pager, and a set of Random Cards
The question this programme answers
AI Can Give the Answer. But Who Decides What Matters?
Beyond the AI Hype
Young adults are often told to learn AI or risk being left behind, while also being warned that AI may take the jobs they are preparing for. Neither tells them what their role is when AI can produce an answer in seconds.
The Human Role
The person still decides which problem is worth solving, judges whether the output is actually good, and takes responsibility for the decision. These are not prompt skills. They are human skills, and they can be practised.
From Output to Decision
Human Edge focuses on what happens around the AI tool: questioning the problem, evaluating the result and making a call when there is no obvious right answer.
How this differs from AI tool training
AI Tools Are Only the Starting Point
What AI Tool Training Teaches
AI tool courses teach how to prompt, generate images and build with no-code platforms. These skills are useful, but they focus on how to use the tool.
What Human Edge Adds
The session opens with ChatGPT answering a workplace brief live. Teams then solve the same brief themselves and, at the end, compare their solution with the AI’s: what did it miss, and what needed empathy, context or ethical judgement?
The Tool Is Easy. The Judgement Is the Programme.
Human Edge focuses on the layer around the tool: making the call, not just making the output.
The five human skills
Creative problem-solving
AI answers the question you give it. Choosing the right question, and finding options beyond the obvious one, is still human work.
Critical thinking
Fluent and correct are different things. Participants practise judging an output against evidence, purpose and audience rather than how confident it sounds.
Empathy
Understanding the person on the other side is the input AI cannot generate for you. Participants gather it themselves and see how differently the work turns out.
Ethical judgement
Deciding what is right, not just what works, when there are several plausible options and someone has to take responsibility.
Storytelling
Presenting a solution so that other people understand it and care about it, then holding or changing position for stated reasons.
How institutions and organisations run this
Human Edge is commissioned by polytechnics, ITE, universities, youth organisations and public agencies. It is led by Kimming Yap, Managing Director of Creativeans, Vice President of the Design Business Chamber Singapore and a Campaign Asia 40 Under 40 honouree (2025). The session is adapted from Human Futures, C-Academy’s 18-hour design thinking curriculum on AI. If it runs at your venue, we need reliable WiFi for the live AI demonstration.
If you are a young person looking to join
You already know how to use AI tools. Most people your age do. That is not what this session is about.
This is about the bit nobody teaches: how to tell whether what the tool gave you is actually any good, how to pick which problem to point it at, and how to argue for your decision when someone senior disagrees. You will watch AI answer a real workplace brief, solve the same brief with your team, then compare the two and defend your call. Teams score points on a live leaderboard as they go.
Registration for Discover runs will be through the National Youth Council’s Discover platform, at no cost to participants.
Common questions
Do participants need to have used AI tools before?
They see AI used live. The session opens with ChatGPT answering a workplace brief, and teams later compare their own solution with its output. The skill being practised is judging and improving on what the tool produces, not operating it.
How is this different from Human Futures?
Human Futures is C-Academy’s design thinking programme on AI for secondary schools, run as a half-day taster, a one-day sprint or a six-session journey of about 18 hours. Human Edge is a single intensive for young adults aged 18 to 35. Same underlying method, different depth and a different age group.
Does this duplicate an AI tool course?
No. Tool courses build skill with the technology. Human Edge works on what a person does with the output: choosing the problem, judging the result and defending the decision. It can sit alongside a tool course.
Are participants using AI tools during the session?
They see AI used live. The session opens with ChatGPT answering a workplace brief, and teams later compare their own solution with its output. The skill being practised is judging and improving on what the tool produces, not operating it.
What evidence do you have that it works?
Human Edge is a new programme and does not yet have its own outcome data. We will publish results once we have them, and we will not borrow figures from our other programmes.
