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020 _a978-0-262-03728-0
100 1 _aAoun, Joseph
245 1 0 _aRobot-proof :
_h[electronic resource]
_bhigher education in the age of artificial intelligence /
_cJoseph Aoun.
260 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c2017.
300 _a1 online resource.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFears of a robotic future -- Views from the C-suite: what employers want, in their own words -- A learning model for the future -- The experiential difference -- Learning for life.
520 _aDriverless 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. A "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.
650 7 _aArtificial intelligence
_xSocial aspects.
_2sears
650 7 _aCollege graduates
_xEmployment.
_2sears
650 7 _aEducation, Higher
_xAims and objectives.
_2sears
650 7 _aEmployability.
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856 _uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1OqW-p9T0cE_XZoHBLKIpI2-uyZBvsevI/view?usp=sharing
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