Robot-proof : higher education in the age of artificial intelligence / Joseph E. Aoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aoun, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Employability.

College graduates--Employment.

College graduates.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on.

Labor supply.

Physical Description:

xxi, 187 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Robot proof

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal research, and analyzing data, are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing? 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.00A ?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.

Contents:

Fears of a robotic future

Views from the C-suite : what employers want, in their own words

A new learning model for the future

The experiential difference

Learning for life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262037280

0262037289

OCLC:

982591450