Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Joseph E. Aoun

Category: Computer, Science
Language: English
Keywords: AI Artificial Intelligence Change Management Computer Technology Computers & Technology computing Creative Mindset Data Literacy Design Digital Anthropology Education engineering Future Of Work Higher & Continuing Education Humanics Nonfiction Northeastern University Robots Social Sciences Technological Literacy Technology Technology & Society

Written by Joseph E. Aoun
Read by John Glouchevitch
Format: MP3
Unabridged

In Robot-Proof, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover - to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.

A “robot-proof” education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with topping up students’ minds with high-octane facts. Rather, it calibrates them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society - a scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for cancer. Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics, which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside human professionals.

The new literacies of Aoun’s humanics are data literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy. Students will need data literacy to manage the flow of big data, and technological literacy to know how their machines work, but human literacy - the humanities, communication, and design - to function as a human being. Life-long learning opportunities will support their ability to adapt to change.