Advices for parents regarding AI (WIP)

This text is a work in progress.

The question has been asked multiple time: if AI can replace existing jobs, what to teach to childrens today?

The wrong answer

The wrong answer: they shouldn't learn tech, math or physics. “Computers will be better than as humans regarding this anyway.”

The goods answers are harder to find, but let's debunk the wrong answer first.

The world and our life is becoming controlled more and more by technology.

Everyone needs a good mental model of the world to reach their goals.

Not understanding technology means not having the key to understand the world we leave in.

This was true for every technology in the past, but it's even more crucial now. AI can be easily anthropomorphized, and someone unfamiliar with its inner workings can be more easily manipulated.

Good answers

As detailed above, studying sciences, and especially computer science has never been so important. It means teaching 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.
• Good workers will be more valued than bad ones.
• Good workers care for what they do and for the result of their work.
• Good workers care for the humans that they work for, directly or indirectly.
• Good workers are hard at work.
• Good workers use good tools.

There will be some trends:

• Be self employed will be easier, and their will be more opportunities to be self employee.
• Having a clear mind and be able to express idea clearly will be more and more important.

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.
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In short: help your kids know what they want, have them understand what it take to have it, care for it, and know how to express clearly what it is.