St. Vincent and the Grenadines is doing something important this summer: putting young people in rooms where digital skills are practiced, not merely discussed. The NTRC’s MyApp Summer Program is running at St. Vincent Grammar School through August 14, while the NCTI’s Business and Technology Leadership Programme has trained young entrepreneurs in tools including artificial intelligence.
The next lesson should be simple: every AI-assisted task needs a human verification habit.
That means teaching students and entrepreneurs to ask three questions before they act on an AI output: What source supports this? What could be wrong? Who is responsible for checking it? For business plans, grant applications, customer messages or coding projects, those questions turn AI from a shortcut into a disciplined tool.
This matters because confidence can rise faster than competence. A polished answer can still be incomplete, misleading or badly matched to local conditions. The cost is not only error; it is learning the wrong habit.
SVG’s digital-skills push can avoid that trap. Make verification a routine part of every AI lesson now, and young people will carry something more valuable than software familiarity into work and entrepreneurship: judgment.
Bio:
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).
