Proposed education reforms

Government, which provides almost the entirety of primary and secondary education, is on a mission to reform the education system. It is most timely.

- BY USVATTE-ARATCHI

The widespread application of digital technology in most activities (general artificial intelligence) in many societies is on a scale comparable to the use of electricity as an energy source in the first half of the 20th century. It is pervasive. It reduces production costs and enables the creation of new goods and servic es. Super artificial intelligence holds forth prospects of hitherto unimagined creative activity whether for good or for ill. There is no escape from the need to teach, learn and practice artificial intelligence. It is feared that super artificial intelligence may come to be beyond the comprehension of any human. Children who begin their secondary schooling now will enter the workforce in the decades beyond 2035. There is no detailed mapping of what that economy and society would be like, but there is little doubt that the 'brave new world' is one that, if we miss, we will be in the backwoods again. Therefore, serious thought on what might be taught in schools is most timely

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