Arcadi Mayor, an expert in artificial intelligence, wanted to make it quite clear and bluntly in a video of Tiktok his opinion about the future of education in Spain. For this, the school continues to teach things that no longer make much sense in the future where technology will monopolize everything.
«What they learn now probably does not help them for the world they are going to live,» he says. And it is not for less, because the AI is changing everything and causing a 180 degree turn in all sectors at full speed.
His idea is clear and focuses on wondering why memorize data if you can ask an AI and give you the answer instantly. For him, the important thing is not to accumulate information, but to know what to do with it, how to interpret it and ask questions. «It’s not about competing with AI, but knowing how to handle it,» he says.
The big problem, As explained, it is that education is still focused on memorizing and obeying, instead of teaching to think, to solve problems and to work as a team. «If you don’t know how to ask the questions well or understand the answers, having all the information in the world is of no use,» he says. And that is just what I should change.
Of course, it also leaves a special hole to the future of many works after the arrival of AI and warns that not only office work is in danger, but the manual trades are in the spotlight of the robots. «There are already machines that can do physical work with a precision that scares,» he says. So, It seems that preparing children for professions that may disappear soon is wasting time.
Precisely, following the thread of what Arcadi comments, there are already countries like Estonia that are trying to row in favor of AI and that children learn to use it correctly since childhood.
Specifically, your idea is to integrate chatgpt and other artificial intelligence tools directly in your schools. Neerav Kingsland, from Anthropic, comments in this regard that «Estonia is creating a model that other countries will probably follow.» And it is not for less, since, as commented on other occasions, the AI promises to customize learning and prepare young people for jobs that do not even exist.
But here comes the ‘but’. Teachers are not so happy. According to several surveys, most recognize that they do not understand how chatgpt works and fears that education is completely ruined. Some even consider that you are closer to a crisis than we think.
More and more university students leave their careers because of AI
The truth is that the arrival of this technology is generating not only a great debate, but also serious problems for university students or recent graduates. Simple, many young people, who previously saw the university as a springboard to fulfill their dreams, now see it as a real waste of time and all because of AI.
«Being obsolete terrified me,» says one of the students, who rejected a master’s degree for fear that his effort would not be worth anything in a market in which the AI already seems the queen and the dismissals are expected in mass. «I spent my life writing stories and dreaming of publishing a bestseller, but seeing how AI generates novels at an industrial rhythm made me doubt everything,» says another student.
The reason is almost always the same, the feeling that AI is occupying the space that was previously exclusive to human talent. The news that speaks of this substitution, the publication of thousands of books written by AI and even that pressure to adapt or die, has caused them to finally pull the towel.
According to academics, the truth is that AI is not replacing most workers, but their conditions are getting worse. Many companies use the automation excuse to cut jobs, lower wages or convert fixed positions into precarious jobs.
And although the great managers promise productivity jumps, the most serious studies, such as those of the Nobel Daron Acemoglu, speak of minimal improvements and an increase in inequality between capital and labor. They are quite clear that the great winners of all this are companies. Meanwhile, workers see how their tasks change or even disappear, they are worsened and paid worse.
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