Sources of competencies for educational programs in the field of artificial intelligence

the subject of research in this article is the sources and content of professional competencies for educational programs of higher education in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), their formulations and methods for identifying in conditions of insufficient definition of the boundaries and components of the field of artificial intelligence and a sharp increase in demand for specialists in this field. According to the results of the study, two professional standards in the field of AI, competencies proposed by the AI Alliance, employers' requirements presented in the form of wording of requirements for professions to job seekers in the texts of vacancies on job search portals can serve as sources. Specialization of educational programs can take place within the scope of AI technologies and their subtechnologies based on an approach based on the distribution of the shares of demand for methods, tools and areas of application in the corresponding field of AI technologies or subtechnologies. Examples of the transformation of professional competencies into disciplines of the curriculum are given.