If we don’t want machines to take over our jobs, we’re going to have to get creative. Literally.
Cheap computing power and rapidly advancing AI mean that machines already outperform us on tasks that involve retaining, processing, and repeating rule-based information. Traditional schooling , however, still centers on a child’s ability to perform such tasks. As a result, the growing emphasis on STEM-based learning may not adequately prepare children to eventually battle robots for their jobs. As Charlotte Blease , a philosophy fellow at University College Dublin, points out, the workplace of the future will require people prepared to ask—and […]
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