New graduates today will be entering a world that is a completely different place than we faced decades ago. Their skills will need to be relevant for today and tomorrow. They will need to understand, and skillfully utilize intelligent digital platforms, intelligent tools, intelligent cobots (digital agent, partners and coworkers), and how to interact with intelligences of all kinds in our emerging polyintelligent world.
I fear though we will miss our mark. Today, we check our phones between 72-100 times a day, spend many hours a day using our phones, but nothing in our schools teach us how to use our smartphones optimally, strategically or skillfully. We focus on banning them from schools, not because they lack utility, but because we use them wrongly and destructively.
Our world uses smartphones, but we don't teach them in school. Our systems and processes use smartphones, but we don't educate ourselves, or our kids on how to use them effectively, optimally or positively.
Now comes a world where artificial intelligence will be inside everything. We will depend on AI to support us in all of our endeavors. Will we treat AI as another smartphone - a toy, hobby or uninvited guest to be banned from our schools, or will we recognize its utility and build a deep understanding of it into our educational curriculum so we can amplify and optimize that which is positive, and manage and diminish that which will cause us trouble?
*I use AI in all my work.
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Kevin Benedict
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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
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