(WIP) Advices for parents regarding AI

Here are some provocative thoughts. But are they true?

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Advices for parents regarding AI (WIP)

This text is a work in progress.

A common question arises: if AI can replace existing jobs, what should we teach children today? How can we prepare them for the coming changes?

The wrong answer

The wrong answer: they shouldn't learn science, coding, math or physics. “Computers will be better than humans regarding this anyway.”, Let’s just focus on Creativity, empahty, etc… Let’s focus on purely human things.

Why is this a terrible answer? Technology increasingly controls our world and daily lives. Without understanding it, we cannot truly comprehend the world we live in. This is true for technology in general, but AI is particularly easy to anthropomorphize, making those unfamiliar with its fundamentals more vulnerable to manipulation.

Good answers

As detailed above, studying sciences, and especially computer science has never been so important. It means learning math, and statistics too.

But what else?

It’s clear that all job the children leaving today will have during their life will be different than the one we have today.

However, certain aspects will remain constant.

There will be need for human to work. Nature hate the emptyness. Humans won't feels fulfills in the next 50 years.

Be a good at what you do.

Good professionals will be more valued than bad ones.

Good professionals care for what they do and for the result of their work.

Good professionals care for the humans that they work with and for, directly or indirectly.

Good professionals are hard at work and pick the best tools.

Widen your scope.

Don’t try to excel at something a machine can do.

Don’t restrain yourself to old category. With AI superpower, the scope of work of every individual will expand.

Find the gaps.

Master many domains

Be curious

Develop your taste

Whatever you do, you can do it well, or less well.

Master all the nuance of this.

Be the one that knows what good means, what quality means. That is able to evaluate the AI works.

Be self driven

AI can do anything, but as no goal

What should be done?

Find the strengh in yourself. If you don’t know what to do, no-one will for you.

Take responsability seriously

You can’t inflict pain to ChatGPT if it fuck up.

In every organisation their will be someone in charge. Someone ready to get fired if things goes wrong, and get a raise if things goes well.

There will be some trends:

Having a clear mind and be able to express idea clearly will be more and more important.

Be self employed will be easier, and their will be more opportunities to be self employee.

Counter intuitive things:

While AI is able to fix typo, translate and rewrite everything easily, the capacity to express complex things easily will be more valued than today.

In short: help your kids discover what they want, ensure they understand what it takes to achieve it, teach them to care about it, and show them how to express it clearly.