P138 Advancing Ummah Sustainability in the AI Era: Validating Four-Capital Employability Skills with Spiritual Capital as a Foundation for Islamic AI Ethics

Abstract

The transformation of civilisation through artificial intelligence (AI) highlights the need for employability skills that combine professional competence with ethical responsibility. From an Islamic perspective, spiritual capital offers a foundation for responsible AI engagement through honesty, trustworthiness and moral judgement. This study aims to validate four employability capital components—human, social, psychological and spiritual—separately using Rasch Model Analysis, and to discuss their relevance to AI ethics and the sustainability of the ummah. A quantitative survey involved 400 student respondents from Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam. Each capital component was analysed for dimensionality, person and item reliability, item fit, point-measure correlations and rating-scale functioning. The findings indicate generally acceptable Rasch measurement properties across all four capitals. Variance explained ranged from 44.7% to 51.1%, with first-contrast eigenvalues of 1.94–2.80, providing support for essential unidimensionality. Person reliability ranged from .86 to .90, item reliability from .96 to .98, and positive point-measure correlations from .54 to .78. Three items—LS2 in social capital and EMS2 and EMS3 in psychological capital—exhibited underfit and warrant review, although their mean-square values remained below 2.0. Rating-scale analysis identified “Strongly Disagree” as the weakest category: it displayed noise in human and psychological capital and received only three responses in spiritual capital. Only social capital satisfied all four rating-scale criteria. These findings support the measurement quality of the four-capital framework while identifying areas for item and response-category refinement. The framework offers a basis for developing employability education informed by Islamic AI ethics, with spiritual capital connecting professional capability to moral responsibility. Further research should examine how these skills translate into ethical decisions in AI-related contexts.