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A futurist who focuses on education technology says artificial intelligence is slowly making human professors less vital to colleges and universities.
If the historical data used to train an AI system disadvantages certain minority groups, the system can be swayed to follow these patterns in its own decision-making process.
What’s more, higher education holds the key to ensuring humans are equipped with the necessary skills to work alongside AI.
Google DeepMind software can diagnose eye conditions as well as human doctors – and the medical profession should welcome this.
There seems to be very limited high-level discourse about how South Africa plans to navigate this wave of technological advancement.
In this book extract, Iram Siraj explains how to help kids get a leg up in a digital world by teaching them communication and other essential 21st century skills young.
As artificial intelligence technology becomes more capable, it threatens more types of jobs – like lawyers, bureaucrats and managers. What social upheaval will happen if those people can’t find work?
Rather than fret about how many jobs future technologies will destroy, we should focus on how to shape them so that they complement the workforce of tomorrow.
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Chief Scientist, Gradient Institute, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Management; KPMG Chair in Organizational Trust, The University of Queensland
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Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Studies and Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University
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Visiting Professor of Education, University of Wollongong
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Economist, Data61, CSIRO
