This is the seventh edition of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) report. With its global coverage and wide range of variables, the GTCI continues to broaden its readership and to be used as a reference of choice by governments, business, and tal-ent experts around the world. Its city component is also rapidly gathering a large audience.

This new GTCI report focuses on Global Talent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, following the path initially explored by the GTCI 2017 theme of Talent and Technology.

Big data—largely fuelled by the internet of things (IoT)—has taken deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to levels that, until a few years ago, many considered unreachable for sev-eral decades. But in and around AI, technical advances are often mismatched with the institutions and mechanisms necessary for their full social acceptance and sustainability: Regulatory, ethical, and values-based AI strategies are among the dimensions that require specific (and coordinated) efforts.

Talent competition, and labour markets in general, have started to be impacted by the rise of AI; this trend will not  diminish in the foreseeable future. The analyses, chapters, and interviews contained in this report illustrate and explore sev-eral key dimensions of the talent/AI equation. Whether from the point of view of needed training and up-skilling that would allow  workers to make the best of new opportunities, or from that of establishing a firm ‘value base’ from which to develop ‘AI for good’, contributors to this year’s edition of the GTCI are highlighting the potential of AI as well as the pitfalls that can be anticipated and mitigated.