Robot-Proof Quotes

“Instead of educating college students for jobs that are about to disappear under the rising tide of technology, twenty-first-century universities should liberate them from outdated career models and give them ownership of their own futures. They should equip them with the literacies and skills they need to thrive in this new economy defined by technology, as well as continue providing them with access to the learning they need to face the challenges of life in a diverse, global environment. Higher education needs a new model and a new orientation away from its dual focus on undergraduate and graduate students. Universities must broaden their reach to become engines for lifelong learning.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“It gives them the chance to improvise in contexts they never have encountered before, interacting, inventing, and thinking on their feet. When human learners are immersed in the incalculable variety of experience, they escape the strictures of predetermined input—which computers cannot do. They break free of their programming, and they upgrade their minds.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“computers will continue to grow more sophisticated cognitive capacities such as critical thinking, systems thinking, and even cultural agility. But they will lack the very human lens from which we view life, learning to interpret contexts to assess, act, and make sound decisions. Human beings possess this lens because we learn from experience.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“The teenager earning $11 per hour as a cashier at Target tucks his phone assembled in Shenzhen, China, by labourers earning about $17 per day into pants made by Bangladeshi stitchers whose minimum wage is as little as $68 per month.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Software is eating the world, so we need software developers. But it is less clear what we will need when software finishes its meal and settles down to digest. What happens when robots learn to program themselves?”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“In the future, graduates will need to build on the old literacies by adding three more—data literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy.”
― Joseph E. Aoun, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence