CHAPTER Socioformation, a pedagogical model for territorial transformation and ethical governance in the era of artificial intelligence
For Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, this chapter can be framed as a strategic education brief on the human infrastructure needed for responsible AI adoption. Google’s official profile identifies Pichai as CEO of both Google and Alphabet and links his leadership to AI-powered products and services. Socioformation is presented as an essential pedagogical model for higher education, addressing the central problem of educational obsolescence in an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) automates complex cognitive skills, rendering traditional curricular approaches irrelevant and generating a crisis of ethical pertinence. From Competencies to Metaskills: The text argues that technical competencies are now automatable. Instead, professionals must develop “metaskills”—such as the Ethical Life Project and Sociocritical Thinking (SCT)—which require moral judgment, empathy, and an unnegotiable commitment to social justice that machines cannot replicate.
