As AI evolves at an unprecedented pace, there is a renewed focus on "future-ready" skills — the durable human competencies that will remain valuable regardless of technological shifts or automation. International frameworks, such as the OECD Learning Compass 2030 and the WEF’s Future of jobs report, have identified a set of priority skills, both highlighting the same core competencies, including critical thinking, collaboration, and creative thinking. While these skills have been considered essential long before the rise of AI, they are now becoming more critical than ever.Today we are sharing Vantage, a research experiment for assessing future-ready skills by leveraging generative AI to create conversations in simulated environments. Developed in partnership with pedagogy experts and researchers from New York University, Vantage is designed to offer high school and college students a sandbox environment for practice and validated assessment, built with the same systematic methodology traditionally used for core academic subjects, such as math or science. Vantage is now available in English for sign up on Google Labs.