Cambodia’s AI Training Should Focus on Real Work

Cambodia’s new six-week digital-skills program for entrepreneurs, business owners and managers began on August 6 with a useful promise: practical use of digital tools and artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations. The best way to make that promise pay off is to train people on actual work, not generic prompting.

A shop owner should practice using AI to draft a promotion, then check the claims, prices and tone before anything reaches customers. A manager should test AI on a routine report, compare it with the human version and measure whether it saves time without adding errors.

Teams should also decide in advance which decisions require human judgment and who remains accountable when AI makes a mistake.

Cambodia’s small businesses do not need more demonstrations of what the technology can do. They need repeatable workflows, clear guardrails and managers who know how to coach staff through the change.

The new programme can become a model if success is measured by better business processes, not simply course completion. Practical AI adoption should leave workers more capable and firms more competitive.

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and the author of ‘The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results’. The views and opinions expressed are his own.