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Human skills first: Preparing for an AI-driven world
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As part of our inspiring women in AI series of interviews, Dr. Gry Hasselbalch, author of Human Power: Seven Traits for the Politics of the AI Machine Age, highlights why human skills will continue to be critical as we use generative AI more regularly.
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Continuous shot of Gry face-on in an office environment.
I think that the best preparation for an AI-driven world is to develop human skills first.
So the reason why, for example, I can use generative AI with no problems is because I have some skills that I've developed throughout life... Critical skills, skills in terms of finding information, understanding what is right and what is wrong, all those skills.
I think if you just give a generative AI model to children, they'll do the same thing as any human being who is just presented with a new shiny tool. You'll use it at its fullest. And then the important part of education is challenged.
So I would actually suggest to develop some different skills. So I know, I understand that that is very difficult because children, access these tools.
But there are ways of emphasizing and ways of changing education in terms of, for example, the role of allowing the educational system is emphasizing the perfection of knowledge, while what you could do is maybe emphasize the more human sides of knowledge, allowing mistakes, for example, and then having the discussion of mistakes.
Otherwise we'll have machines that are writing the students' essays and machines that are grading the students' essays, and we're actually de-skilling humanity in many ways.
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