The Good Future of Education: Special Keynote by #publicthinker Gerd Leonhard Montreal Congress

I am guard Leonard I live in Switzerland in Zurich so as a futurist I talk a lot about what's coming it is interesting the last few years everything that we've talked about has happened like in Star Trek warp drive right it's like you hit a button and before you know it it's here reminds me of a book by Hemingway where He talks about how does a person go bankrupt he says gradually then suddenly and in the future is like this the future is no longer about tomorrow the future is here we have machines that can

understand what we're saying most of the time we have self-driving cars we have artificial intelligence we have cloud computing and then we have stuff like this this is my friend Mick Jagger just Kidding I can't play the music unfortunately of this track because it would get us kicked off YouTube but you all know the song Right Start Me Up you can tell from his lips and so Mick agreed to do a video with Boston Dynamics robot that was essentially aping met most interesting that if you have tried this or the robot 10 years ago it

would have destroyed the whole facility right because it wasn't capable Of doing this but after a lot of training the robot can be kind of acting like Mick but when I was watching this video the other day I was thinking like the most amazing thing about this is not the robot it's Mick right he's 79 years old in fact God I used to be a musician in fact I worked on a Rolling Stones tour when I was 20. where I got to meet meet Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that was a long time ago when

I was fixing the stage you know helping as a stagehand but this is the interesting part the thing about technology is that it's amazing if we put it next to humanity it's usually not much by itself and I'll tell you why that is really what's happening today so we have these trends that have been around for a while I call them the game changers so Big data cloud computing artificial intelligence blockchain they're all actually becoming real like 3D printing now the first houses are being printed to the north and Texas hundreds of them in a

row from a machine that makes the house enter the inside of the house and the people no not not the people it doesn't print the people not yet but this house costs like fifteen Thousand dollars is very ugly but it's a house right now it's safe to say when we look around we're going to have more change in the next 10 years than the previous 100 years that's both scary and also very exciting because we've talked about for example nuclear fusion the idea of nuclear fission nuclear energy the other way around to create the next

iteration nuclear Energy as a project like like that here in Montreal I believe as well that could easily solve our sustainability problems and the thing about all these things is that it causes what I call the mega shifts these are things that happen in society as a consequence so datification robotization this intermediation all these things we used to call them The Asians because they're all in donation but in my last book technology Humanity I talk about this you can download the whole chapter online at megashifts.digital in French also in 12 different languages you should definitely

read this because this is the key to the future of Education everything around us is changing work as we know it is Changing Life as we know it we may live in a world 20 years from Now where work doesn't mean what it does today anymore if you are my age work is the central part of our lives that's not going to be true in 20 years that's because we will have technology doing commodity work for us you know dirty dull and dangerous the donkey work you could say technology is learning this now and most

importantly when we do this of Course is the result of this a complete shift in our thinking we used to call this world the vuca world right volatile uncertain complex is from the military and all of a sudden we have to flip the Voca right covet the Ukraine Russia War the energy crisis the deglobalization the shifting role of America 50 things all happening at the same time Now it's about velocity speed unorthodoxy co-creation and the good old American word awesomeness I don't know if that exists in French I don't know but I don't know does

it somebody tell me yeah probably I have to look it up but you know I live in Switzerland which is none of those things we're not fast we're not unorthodox co-creation may be awesome no I mean we have also nature And awesome thanks I was going to say that's a mistake of course that is just not true looking at Credit Suisse sweat we have banks that used to be awesome so in Europe we have a hard time with this speed but we must learn with our students and ourselves the future is not an extension of

the present it's not just doing things better or faster it is a complete opposite And nowhere can this be felt more urgent than in education we've been teaching our kids the same way for I don't know under 50 years and now we're realizing everything is changing I made a video about education in Canada for ad view Canada about two years ago and in the research I found out that there's many interesting angles already happening in Canada For vocational training new classes new thinking kind of a bit like Finland where for example many schools don't teach

subjects anymore they teach topics so you go to school for half a year and your topic is climate change chemistry physics politics languages everything rolled together in one topic and at the end you don't get the test you have to give a speech chapter couldn't do that To give a speech on that topic very easily so this is our Central Paradigm for the future those four things how do we teach that how do we become that I always say culture eats technology for breakfast Peter Drucker said something similar about strategy it's so important what we

are and how How successful we are is about culture it's about who we are as people not what kind of apps we use or if we're first with AI very important to realize that technology is now becoming so powerful that we can essentially save will have unlimited technological Firepower in 10 years by 2030. unlimited Firepower means unlimited computing power unlimited energy for the computer right The possibility of connecting our brain to the internet uploading your brain science fiction not impossible so it could be heaven or it could be hell and of course the fort the

uh the idea of Heaven or Hell is not something that is based on technology is something that we think about what we do with it give us some stats here super computing Going through the ceiling in 10 years any Computing job can be done on your mobile phone here artificial intelligence if you're a lawyer lawyer apparel legal or an office in admin support your app to be four and a half times as efficient in a few years using AI because you have better tools better tools have always increased productivity chat GPT which I'll explain in

detail a little bit later Going from the first edition here it has a measly 175 billion parameters now it has a trillion parameters that it draws from and like the top languages of the world explosive exponential so one of my key topics is this the good future how do we build a good future based on all these things you know it's ironic these days when I Speak to my own kids 27-33 they said you are dreaming there's no such thing as a good future I I mean have you observed the energy crisis Putin China all

the things that are going wrong climate change of course but still I believe the good future is possible I went to Lancer road to Canary Island to shoot this film called the good Future which you can watch online thegoodfuturefilm.com and in the film I talk mostly about this the relationship between humans and machines and that is what education is all about this is the topic of the future of work what between what we train our kids with which way we're looking into the future it's very important to realize of course why in the world would

we memorize all of the information in school But when it's growing like this the amount of information and our artificial intelligence helper has access to all of it well we would do it sometimes like languages where it's better if we know them rather than use an app but this is changing absolutely everything and we have to realize societies are driven by technology but defined by the humanity That's what I love about Canada you can feel the humanity in many more ways like this I think what we have in Europe and this is what makes us

really slow we're humanists call it a fault if you want I think it's important what we want is to find by values ethics ideas spirituality not religion that's a different topic Just on the bottom level what we believe in and what we want so when we look at the future clearly it's going to be automation everywhere if you have a job that's 95 automatable your job is gone as we know in manufacturing but interestingly enough Amazon the king of automation last year hired 280 000 people this year they're firing quite a few of them again

right like everybody is but You know clearly we're going to see stuff like this virtual reality I mean a lot of new jobs will emerge from here this is a virtual digital twin in a factory where you can see what you're doing remotely to fix the equipment I mean you're going to need training for that you're going to need new equipment for this and this is what education may look like access to everything but of course funny part about this is humans don't Learn like this only we can use that for many things I use

it all the time it's pretty cool but we don't think with the brain we don't see with the eyes humans are combining all of that sensory input for learning everything so we have to be careful about virtual reality like a sort of reductionist approach you know we can just be there and not meet any humans we know that hasn't really worked out Too well in the covet crisis but nevertheless we're entering the period of the five revolutions the industrial evolution and the new one of course is artificial intelligence industry 5.0 it's going to make our

lives more efficient faster cheaper is going to be a huge solution to climate change if we do it right it could be amazing Americans are falling between humans and Machines that's something we have to think about and we also have to think about how much of a machine do we want to become you know becoming older for longevity upgrading our systems it's about this precaution and pro-action these are actually two different things in Montreal we have a lot of activity on artificial intelligence that's proactive And we should never ever keep researchers from pushing the envelope

at the same time precaution means you push the envelope so far that Montreal May become a black hole because of some experiment with nuclear fusion that's probably not such a good idea you have a dampen our excitement about being here so the two things are really important and we have to realize What's Happening Here is that we are slowly increasing we're getting older we're getting smarter but machines are Way Beyond us in processing power and the interesting part is that science fiction is becoming science fact I mean watch all of the old science fiction movies

you're saying that Star Trek Communicator remember that we have that here now remember on Star Trek you had one scene in the movie where the guy is ordering a Pan-fired catfish from a machine you just said pan fried catfish and how it comes the machine the the food right we're not quite there yet but you can eat printed food printed ice cream printed Pizza now a 3D printer will print your earlobe right and even out of your nose science fiction is becoming science fact robotics I mean I you know I have no idea why somebody

would use a kitchen robot like This seems kind of like defeating the point I love to cook but these robots can do the job I mean you spend fifty thousand dollars on a robot like this and it makes an egg sandwich you know that's really impressive but I mean it kind of shows as to what the possibilities are where things are going and how we can see the future then we Communicate Facebook meta Horizon space where they you can meet people in virtual reality and with Holograms and it's showing education in the metaverse like this

to which I wouldn't frankly say that's probably meta's effort to save itself from the evil doings of social media and that's really kind of more sort of Science Fiction than fact but the ideas has Merit If I can learn like this would be amazing but it will take ten thousand dollars to be involved with this that's kind of a steep price tag for the time being but anyway we can see where that's coming where that's going to all of this is driven by four technology revolutions the first one you know of course is the information

technology Revolution data science computing Blockchain all that stuff that's all around us the second one 100x the sustainability Revolution we're going to say goodbye to fossil fuels we're going to shift everything to Circular economy then the biotech Revolution genetic engineering and of course programming information science and so on synthetic biology and finally intelligent machines they are all coming together today I know it sounds a little bit technical but when you look at these and you're looking at all the proofs then you have to say your first conclusion is this one I'll put it kind of

straightforward like this so you make sure you get the message work as usual is dead or dying if we're still working like we used to then you're just plain lucky we'll just take time My job 50 years ago I wrote research reports I sold them for ten thousand dollars a piece you know printed dead trees copy now we go to Google Trends get the same information job gone but I did find a few other jobs as you can tell but it's interesting enough that also as a consequence of work as usual ending education as usual

is dead or dying That is not a bad message it's time to reinvent education to be fit for this kind of future just like the music industry went from the record and the CD to the cloud I used to be a musician and producer I wrote a book about the future of Music Spotify is Loosely based on the idea in the book music like water and when they first came out the record label said we don't want this music Water stuff we hate you right because music on the internet will be cheap and they refused

for 10 years Global revenues went down from 50 billion to 15 billion as a result then came Spotify and for some reason it worked the iPhone right was the key for that and now Spotify and other services have a 180 million subscribers paying 10 a month That's like 2 billion a month in new business the same thing is going to happen to the education new money from the state New funding new possibilities New Horizons and this could be as I'll keep saying Heaven or Hell it's an amazing opportunity but it will also sometimes literally question

our assumptions and here's the interesting part Whether it's heaven or hell it's not up to technology is to what we do with the technology doc Minister Fuller my famous futurist colleague who died about 30 years ago he said humanity is inventing all the right technology but uses it for the wrong reasons so the reasons right that's about policy it's about making the right decisions having the right guidelines and here's a tough part When it's about technology it's never about yes or no if we can save a single person from getting cancer by having genetic engineering

we must do that but we don't want people to use genetic engineering to have super babies because they have a lot more money same technology right so William Gibson science fiction writer technology is morally neutral until we Use it when you use technology and education you have to think about the moral side effects the ethical side effects equality diversity bias issues because technology has no ethics it's a machine I mean it's a simple exercise for example lots of people say um if you speak to an AI and you say please solve climate change You know

what it would do get rid of all of us it's the most logical solution it's just a little bit inconvenient for us so it's a mission failure if that's what was the intention right if we want to use technology we have to create the social context of Frameworks of policy everything around the technology will not do that and technology companies will never do that because it's in their Way of monetization look at social media well the gold mine I loved social media for a long time it's turned into a huge pile of Chopstick stuff I

stopped using Facebook I stopped speaking for Facebook I stopped I mean I'm still using Twitter because I'm kind of hooked on it but social media single-handedly responsible for the demise of democracy In many countries that's because what we see there is just put forth by an AI that wants me to click on the next link it's pathetic right that we have to change so let's talk about what all that means if Ai and chat GPT and what the future holds first a scary definition Dennis Wasabi is the CEO of deepmind now owned by Google really

bright guy he says AI is Defined as computer systems that turn information and data into knowledge if you're in education this should scare you I mean isn't that after all what we are knowledge isn't that our mission well guess what the mission has changed the mission is beyond knowledge because machines can have simple knowledge you know binary informational logic that's what you call machine Learning right deep learning right here in Montreal Joshua benio is working on that one of the leading voices in AI machine learning says pretty much what it is it's a machine that

learns from data but not like a human it learns from data after all not from real life so you can see in this chart here 700 experts were asked from ipsos to say Which sectors will change most because of artificial intelligence a guess which ones came out on top education learning and employment I mean all the other ones are pretty big as well so you can say pretty much everything has changed by AI but first and foremost Education and Training so this is a really really big topic because it opens up an opportunity for us

to think about the world Beyond Knowledge is the trailer from the Montreal school I'm sure you're quite familiar with it's interesting to see that this was actually a huge Topic in the debate recently about artificial intelligence so the big thing that happened like a few months ago is that open AI came up with the first public model What's called the GPT the generative pre-trained Transformer sounds kind of convoluted it's basically A pivot okay it takes information it puts it together for answers I want to show you this trailer from open AI because it's both funny

and it has this jingle jingle music from Silicon Valley every time you hear this kind of music you can be sure there's some sort of hidden agenda but let me play this gpt4 is the latest AI system from open AI the lab that created Dolly and chat gbt gpt4 is a breakthrough in Problem-solving capabilities for example you can ask it how you would clean the inside of a tank filled with piranhas and it'll give you something useful it can also read analyze or generate up to 25 000 words of text it can write code in

all major programming languages and it understands images as input you can see the rest on YouTube but of course cleaning a tank with programmers is very much a first world problem you Know uh but hey you know why not use that as an example but really what it is this this guy Marquis Brownlee has a great video channel on Tech and he says it's basically like this and I really love the animation so I'm showing it is that this engine is putting together words to make answers for questions what does the quick brown fox do

the machine looks for all the possible matches and it comes up with an answer that's Obviously right the correct brown fox jumps over the lazy dock wouldn't take a machine with an IQ of a trillion to do that but you could say it's a little bit like I said like a parrot it has no idea what the dog is what a physic faces what jumping means this is just the most obvious answer is totally devoid of meaning it looks for patterns this machine is extremely useful if you Have a problem with your camera connecting to

your computer it will find the answer you have a more sort of social issue it's useless all right because it has no context it has no real life understanding I'll give an example here in this example you see somebody who wants to do a lawsuit for a crank call you know a Spam call he wants to sue Marriott so you can do that on chap GPT it will File a lawsuit on your behalf well this is not some bold stuff right it's just templates basically it will do that and because I'm getting extremely lazy I

went to chat GPT to figure out what I should say to you okay so I gave the question what impact will chat GPT have on the future of secondary education you can ask those kind of wrinkle questions right But interesting enough first gives you a disclaimer and then it says some really interesting stuff personalized learning access to educational resources right all that other stuff could be very helpful letting the playing field helping the teacher but of course you would say that's what all technology does for Education not really new so I ask another question will

this not make the students lazy and compliant You can drill deeper into using the tool for judge I have the pro subscription where you can do that and it will also make a nice disclaimer but then it said okay encourage critical thinking I don't know how that's going to work with the machine but okay and it gives a couple tips on how we can actually change this encourage students to ask questions balance the technology and humans it's talking about itself obviously Really interesting answer so this helps me to prepare myself but it doesn't take away

from me yeah it's a power tool it's like you know you make a hole with a screwdriver or you use electric drill yeah it's kind of like this very useful and very helpful what I really love about it though is this when the New York Times went in and they gave a command to chat GPT to prove the Moon landing was staged you know the Americans on the moon remember that right lots of theories about that and to make some images about how to prove that the moon landing was staged these are the images of

the fake moon landing the filming Studio filming of the moon landing this is how you can generate fake truth every two seconds but what I like about most is that it Makes me look good so I totally make me you know look like a space-faring guy and you know you know I'm like I don't know 40 50 years ago anyway it does that pretty well and here's the question Math teachers 1968 hated the calculator Italians band chat GPT it's still banned but they're removing it what should your response be when kids use it students use

it When you use it and there was the MRT technology review says Chad GPT is going to change education not destroy it and a bunch of Articles of this came out recently one of them says on this Moto we should go back to oral exams I think that's a great idea because he can't use the engine for this right that will be a good sort of bridging over but I'm with this Central agenda how do we use it for Education Without destroying it how do we use this tool because as I said earlier it's not

the Tool's fault that we're using it wrongly you can use a hammer to build a house or you can go across the street to your neighbors and kill them same tool AI is the same way so we have to think about how we use it wisely and which way we're going with This back to what I was saying earlier this is part of the context of why education as we know it is dead or dying GPT provides one more argument of why we can't keep going with education as we have it gives us ammunition that

says okay this machine can make the answer instead of the student perfect cheating tool the way when we test students was outdated long time before jet GPT Like for example you know if if chair GPT and AI can pass the bar exam it doesn't say anything about Chad jupiteria says a lot about the bar exam right a robot can pass the bar exam does a robot make a good lawyer we all know that's not the truth Fred but that's what we do today the idea of downloading information for later that's how I went to school

I learned Hebrew greek latin French Italian whatever right a bunch of stuff that was you know good exercise but what do we need to learn today we need to learn how to learn and to unlearn to relearn Alvin Toffler so all of this led me to the idea of talking about between the difference between humans and machines that's a very important topic so chat GPD tells us that's all we need In our pocket and very soon you can speak to it don't think for a minute that we're stopping with text you'll pull out your phone

and you say I feel really lonely what is the perfect wife for me in the circle of the next five miles or just just the example yeah and you will find it her sorry well it may actually be it because it may be a bot right but real life is completely different As I'm sure all of you are aware of real intelligence is not about computing and social cultural kinesthetic we have eight different kinds of intelligences and of course Arthur C Clarke who wrote The Space Odyssey film he says let me remind you this was

1968. that information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom each grows out of the other and beneath them all information is not knowledge So I was in India three weeks ago and the Indian version of this of intelligences is the four aspects of mind right so cheetah booty and Monet and the sensory mind is on this side and the other one that's more machine driven logic driven is here and I ran across this guy sad Guru you know I'm not usually interested in gurus but I ran across this guy you may know him and

I was watching a speech and he said exactly the thing that I wanted To say in the speech so I used it and played for you so many of you will be out of your vocation unless you do something that a dam machine cannot do all of you should gear yourself for this now you must be able to do something beyond your intellect human being has many layers of intelligence intellect is only a small part of it right now our education system is completely dedicated to intellectual development of the human Being and we think that's

the grandest way to live I couldn't have said it better myself interesting statement right when we think about where we are going with this and when we look at this direction it's really quite clear knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand and the knowledge of an AI is useful but a lot of times there's water in the sand And it's also very random it is faulty as well so it can be useful if we capture the water but by and large it's a lot like this and this will of course vastly improve over

the next few years so we have more reliable information more reliable details but this is what we do as humans we're sensory beings all Sensei real life IRL is not the same in Digital Life That is because we are sensory humans right a single unified experience from eyes and ears and skin and smell that's how we learn that's why when you speak somewhere like I do a lot and I could smell the excitement literally or the fear I speak differently that's why Zoom doesn't work for this right a lift sensory experience That's what learning is

so the ideal future will be hybrid some of the informational stuff I do online maybe in VR maybe otherwise but real learning happens in the sensory experience also still that's because we're still humans what we should avoid is what I call machine thinking boiling down our lives to what the machine thinks it is and this weird idea that we have a left Brain and a right brain I mean all of us know that's utterly out there we don't think we work with the brain we think of the body and we have to understand what happens

here of course when we look at the future this kind of idea upgrading ourselves to think faster is ludicrous that's not what we are that's what machines do our job is to do the opposite to find What makes us human all these things here applications reduction inductionism confusion errors that's what we get when we rely 100 of machine on the machine when you use Google Maps all of us use Google apps all the time but we question it right especially if you're at home you say no it can't be true but you still use it

if I'm in Lagos Nigeria that's all I've got I'm gonna Have to trust it right but we use it like this with caution right humans are for questions machines are for answers and that will not change for at least 20 years until we have what's called general intelligence super intelligence so as we go on that future Sam Altman the CEO of openai he says the coming change with machines having the phenomenal ability to think create understand and reason To that I would say I'm not sure I would want that I just want the machine to

get the job done you know just be competent why do I want it to reason what's the point of that he says the air evolution is coming and then he says in true Silicon Valley grandstands right the Revolution Will generate enough wealth for everyone we've heard that before Social media and what happened Facebook makes 150 million dollars profit a day all that money goes to six major cities in the US they keep in mind all of us are just fodder in that process of generating more money and so basically the last thing he says he

says if we as a society manage it responsibly that's his quote not mine And to that I would say we're failing on that it's all good stuff but we haven't managed it responsibly yet we haven't thought about the side's effects so I sent the letter on open AI right on the future of Life on waiting to see how we can actually use that along with Elon Musk and 20 000 other researchers and I was reminded of this that I put forward and fourth in my book called the Digital ethics Council I called it now the

amenity future Council this is what we need to think about what future do we want do we want it to be enough money for everybody parenthesis because the machines are running politics while some politicians already looked like the machines but that's a different story the question is do we want a machine That has the ability to think to reason and to understand the world fully martial Nick Lewin famous Canadian right first we build the tools then the tools build us that we wouldn't want first we built the tools and then we use the tools that's

what we have to do in education not have the tool take over because some people can make lots of money with the Takeover of course as Part of the problem so this stat shows I don't have the Canadian equivalent unfortunately the Soviet countries that trust AI India China South Africa Brazil trust AI is sometimes up to 75 percent to that I would say that's like saying do I trust my hammer well I trust the hammer to work you know when I use it he has no life on its own instead two of her crying out

loud it's not God it's not purpose once we get to this future where AI is a Black box that says this student will be taken into the college or not this person can leave jail on probation or not then we're in deep trouble now that's dehumanizing us in the long run into a world that we don't want the reality is this machines don't think they do deep learning machine learning but thinking like a human we don't even know how we do that really machines don't do that machines don't understand There's been thousands of examples where

you can trick the AI into saying that Queen Elizabeth is still alive by asking the right questions just by having a different context machines don't care so when we think about the most common confusion is this right we think that chapter GPT the machine looks like this kind of like a you move the brain and the heart and you know feels very much alive But the reality is it's a really complicated box and we can use that that's why we shouldn't ban it but we shouldn't give it this phase in life that says that chat

GPT is like a teacher I mean nothing could be further away from the truth so as we go into this future talk about the truth this is the primary problem AI could Fabricate things or it is fabricating things that we don't know from reality anymore and that we need some regulation around this so large language models they're about patterns not meaning they're about career runs not the truth there are simulations not reality none of these things makes them bad it makes them a pretty smart and Powerful tool that we have to question I always say

the future of AI in education and generally is keep the human in the loop train us to use it right like there's a big thing now about skills like having the right querying skills and the prompting of AI that's becoming like a whole educational thing now and of course if we look ultimately this direction democracy is under Fire when machines are making the media it's obvious We have to re-humanize so let's bring it down to what that all means for Education which way we're going with this because that's ultimately the thing when we talk about

education many people have talked about the metaverse and 3D Computing and virtual reality I think that's very powerful it's not here yet but the internet is going spatial we're going to go on the internet in a 3D environment whether it's with apples And your glasses coming out next year research doctors dentists professionals lawyers you know we'll all use that and of course the police department right but really what we don't want so we don't want to use the feeling as to what we are because technology virtualizes everything and reduces everything to a sort of digital

transaction right that is of course the key to our Humanity when we do that maybe we don't need reality anymore because we're inside of this there's a name for this called people nature deficit disorder that's actually a disease nature deficit disorder that's something we have to fix I think when we look at the future of Education how do we put this together when we think about AI intelligent assistance that's nice we think about AI That's the Fancy version what we really don't want is this general intelligence do you want a machine with an IQ of

a trillion connecting to other machines with an IQ of a trillion without having a human agenda that sounds like a bizarre wish so obviously we wouldn't survive for that given what AIG is prone to do so we have to think about using all these things but at the very end There has to be a big question of the last part right the autonomous intelligence and the intelligence that we can use for machines to become superhuman or the other way around so here basically I talk a lot about this in the beginning the good future Steward

Russell in his book human compatible says it's competence that matters for machines not consciousness in my view we shouldn't pursue Consciousness in machines general intelligence it makes no sense because the boatload of money and doesn't really help us so there's a very big agenda I think when we think about training and jobs whether it's going especially when it's about automation this is the reality any job that is routine any job whether it's lawyers dentists or whatever that is mostly routine machines are learning and will do That is a fact of life but you'd be surprised

how many jobs are actually not a hundred percent routine but just a fraction of it so here's a chart showing that somebody put up on Twitter the other day how many jobs will be displaced tens of millions according to this but my view is well it's a lot of a job replaces some of my routines then I can do other things if I'm a doctor using a machine for Radiology I can work quicker than I have more time to speak to the patient or I just work four hours a day and play golf make the

same money it's a very important issue here first of course call centers right 21 million people around the world computers can do that 90 of it uh check out the supermarket machines can do that but sometimes it's nice to have a person especially in small Villages and warehouse workers machines can do all that now and Clerks data filing paralegals the good news is of course even if the computer can do a lot of these jobs there's other components where the computer has no idea how to do it a self-driving truck on a highway works fine

but when the truck gets off the highway And has to drive to the store it fails to do it so it's really interesting to see which way that's heading for us quite clearly we could automate flying this is a bot that flies in your lineup but what is the point of saving one or two measly pounded jobs you know it's not going to be financially bankruptcy to have a pilot considering everything else and who would fly in a box with a robot And then we have this clearly something that's happening you know this machine is

unloading a truck of boxes but you know how many millions of dollars it took to get to that point and you know where the safety cage is there that will be a long time before that completely automated so here's the bottom line of this anything that can be digitized automated virtualized will be And AI as I call it but we shouldn't mistake a clear view for a short distance self-driving cars people do all kinds of crazy things instead of driving cars we don't really have self-driving Cars level five we have all kinds of experiments do

you see any here how long will that take I think much longer than we think and most importantly of course we aren't really Ready as you can see here with the police stopping a self-driving car you know knocking on the window uh we're not ready for this and I think the relatively is this for the foreseeable Futures humans will rarely be entirely displaced by AI but humans with AI will replace those that don't have it and that is no deal right humans with technology replace those that don't have it So that's an interesting thing when

we think about the future of work and training what we have to do which way we're going when we're looking at this clearly the challenge is this you know we have all this increased productivity with AI but in the US for example The increased productivity hasn't paid out for the worker compensation hasn't gone up for the worker there haven't been more jobs for The worker the worker hasn't gotten more money because of the corporate profit that's something we have to fix and we may fix it with what I call the digital dividend you know paying

people to get a new job out of the fund of automation automation tax as Bill Gates has called it nobody likes taxes but this is something we have to think about So the coming human Renaissance I talked briefly about this we're in a world like this you know we're surrounded by technology uh sometimes I call this the neoluvian man or woman in this case surrounded by Tech but now because of covert and everything else we're discovering how important humanity is we're discovering how important meetings are and getting together in person And how important nature is

so there's a process of rehumanization going on pretty much across the board it means this for education the focus on STEM Science technology engineering math will get another compliant part what I call hecky in my book Humanity ethics creativity imagination because stem is something that machines can do and learn you have lots of demos now on Twitter And and YouTube where robots are programming websites so to be a programmer you have to be above that level if you actually have a job which means you need the human skills to talk to your teammates to come

up with ideas to do new things and that means a whole pyramid of work is changing interesting I think this is the main point I'm making with my entire Presentation is this perimeter shifting the lower part is kind of like Maslow on the lower part is what machines can do now data information knowledge machine knowledge binary knowledge simple commodity knowledge machines can do that the human drove is above that purpose wisdom understanding and this is what we have to teach we're not going to stop teaching the other part because it you have to have Knowledge

right I'm the great believer in knowledge but we shouldn't have the illusion that people who are full of knowledge and theoretical information and download the information for later are going to be capable to survive in the New World they're going to need these skills emotions creativity imagination bring back the humanities this is not anti-science or stem but the ticket to the future is not just To have scientists or technologists machines can do that machines can build Bridges they can build houses they can do all these things in the future that we haven't even noticed until

now human only attributes of the future because they're invaluable look at this course over history many of our future jobs will be human only jobs here's the list human well-being agent ethics specialist data buyer supervisor my favorite is This one the re-wilderer you know somebody who helps us to go wild again the nature agent another code here of course from uh where is it okay skip the quote then we have to drop this idea of efficiency being the utmost important this is what we learned at business school right I mean I teach a business school

occasionally and it's kind of funny people talk about efficiency and Optimization this is all pre-covered pre-revolution pre-ai machines are efficient that's what they do we're not going to beat them on efficiency It's always important to be efficient nobody wants to be inefficient but you didn't marry your husband or your wife because they're efficient right there's other things to life so what we need to learn now in school Is this human agency Consciousness imagination intuition compassion empowerment resilience how do we teach that that's the key to our future right there back to the famous Canadian education

must shift from instruction from the imposing of stencils on brain pens as it were to Discovery that was 60 years ago Of course it's not just Discovery like it's another part to it but this is really where we are going with all of this so bottom line is if you work learn or think or act like a machine the machines will take your job and I always say if you learn like a robot you'll end up working for the robot this we should not do with our students to teach them that this still works is

utterly wrong We need to find another way into a future that's different so recommendations and then I'll be off the stage you can move on into into the future so to speak so the Halloween scenarios Buckman's the folder we are to be architects of the future not as victims as a teacher and as an organization in education you are the architect of the future of your students of your participants That is a huge responsibility that we need to rethink how we take charge of that future how all the bad stuff that we see with AI

the side effects their finalities does not give us a reason or the right to dump it and to say we should get rid of it because you know it has problems every technology has problems we look at all the good things that it does What efficient productivity gains Shifting the proteins accelerating human knowledge work our job is to move that into the center bring out the good things minimize the bad things that's our job it's inevitable that technology is going forward and we have to decide how far we want to go and what our policy

is architects of the future so the handshake between humans and machines Brings us to this balance safety security ethics control trust policy let's be sure about this nobody likes regulation nobody likes taxes but they are fact of life do your voluntarily pay attacks I would voluntarily pay a climate tax as I have proposed to many countries in Europe right now to solve the problem but that's about the only instance where people would think it makes sense right to voluntarily pay and we need to figure This out what is the framework and we'll take a lot

of wisdom of ourselves of the government of our leaders to figure this out together that is why I'm asking all the technology companies around the world to adopt the technocratic oath like a doctor I hereby a pledge to place Humanity first over technology in every decision when they do that that's when I will Trust AI because right now I'm seeing them placing monetary streams of course it's a battle of money But ultimately are we going to live in a 10 of us most of us here probably will end up there but everything else is falling

apart what good will that do for our kids to have more money but no place where you want to live how we're going to design the future the good future like this People Blended purpose prosperity that's what it all comes down to that's what we have to teach our students our participants and of course our kids starting from very very early in school because here's the key question it's no longer about if and how technology can do something but why it should we're just at the cusp of this where we're saying technology and principle can

do all of these things We can live to be 150 years old we can upload our brain to the internet no longer science fiction very soon the question is who and why and what will I do and in education we're at the switching point of this of this exponential curve to figure out what students will learn from this so five keys to the field is a good future of Education First let's get rid of this thinking These are machines for crying out loud they are not human they are sound human they're amazing simulators they are

doing great on the on the on the pivot you know stochastic parrot thing they sound really good but they don't really know real life that's like saying when you see a picture of a city or a person that's the person well everybody knows that's not the case right this is a snapshot One a holistic approach to the Future all disciplines all topics and looking at the side effects of what technology does that's called holistic if we had done that with oil and gas we wouldn't be here today with climate change we didn't take the holistic

view we took the easy way out which was more and more and more and more and now we are paying the price So that's something to keep in mind when we think about what education will look like also protecting what makes us human right pro-action and precaution that means sometimes you say yes sometimes to say no in any case I don't want to do it sometimes doesn't say yes baby I'll change my mind tomorrow this is what humans do take a wider View The future jobs are not even invented yet seventy percent of 20 30

jobs are not even invented yet today they don't exist so it's time for education to become future focused to think about what's not already here to develop the agenda that we have there and finally to re-humanize bring back Arts education culture ethics Sports As Steve Jobs rest in peace said from the very beginning art and Technology that's the ticket and I think it was very right in this and I think ultimately this is where we are going to have a good future and there's a summary I leave you with one thought your mindset contains your

future I've learned that over the years been speaking to people if you're an optimist you will create a future If you're pessimist somebody will create it for you to your mindset of understanding the future is what creates your reality and if you have students you run educational institutions the mindset of your students is what you teach them what do you give them what you try to transfer to them that's why it's so important self-fulfilling prophecy we have Negative view of the future it will be negative that's our opportunity the mindset contains our future thanks very

much thanks for your time thank you very much [Applause] thank you [Applause] thank you so much but do we uh we have time for a few questions and after that we'll be heading off to our thank you so Thank you uh microphones are right there we'll be taking I'm told three questions uh or any commenters you'd like to add we ask you to keep your questions short within 30 seconds a minute so we have time to answer do we have anybody would like to take the mic the microphone is right there at this moment okay

I'm still thinking about the question use a microphone okay um I wanted to thank you very much for Your presentation um it's amazing I'm a Humanities teacher um in Quebec um and I teach critical thinking I teach a lot of the things that you talk about so thank you for putting this to the Forefront I really appreciate it uh what I have a question is um in your presentation you said the technology is kind of like a hammer it's neutral the problem is and you mentioned this in Your presentation is the Confluence of infotech Biotech

all that stuff coming together we've seen it through Facebook we've seen it through these algorithms that hack our minds trying to get us to do likes like you mentioned my question to you is you know how can you see it as a hammer when you know that these corporations are combining these things to make it not like a hammer anymore to make it something that is essential to our lives and I guess the last the Second question that's related is the automation um I get it I understand that you know that's what we want robots

to do but I'm thinking about the millions of peoples in Indonesia who are making uh stuff in factories I mean I worked in factories most of My Teenage life those people are going to lose a job and I think they're important jobs too I need we need humans making things for us too not just robots so I guess those are just questions Sorry I didn't want to take too long I answered the second one first I think it's quite clear that the future does not exist for us outside of the developing countries you know we

can't take our future and make our future and not look at their future it's just like climate change you know as we're going into the future Canada or Europe can completely go green if these guys aren't coming along in India Indonesia and China we're still Toast so that is quite clear because we are already going green in Europe but if we don't get Africa and everybody else to come along and stop building coal plans and you know we're not going to make it for less than five or six degrees warming which is disaster consequences we

have to pay for them to not do what we did this is what came out of the Corp 27. so we are going to have to help them to Make that switch to ruble energy which means spending money on them going green which means I may pay a carbon tax in Germany or in Switzerland and it may end up in Indonesia to create solar energy and here's the same thing about jobs in India for example where I just spoke lots and lots of jobs are like this you know they're I wouldn't say menial but they're

you know commodity jobs and and simple very simple jobs and of course they're on the Forefront of that whole Trend towards uh technology taken over so in the end what it will mean is that we have to figure out a global way of solving this problem of how we can use technological progress to be distributed evenly the problem is not that we don't have new money or new Solutions is that it's about distribution of that new money so taking the benefit of Technology we could use that to create a Level Playing Field for everybody but

so far We haven't the benefit of social media has not gone to the citizen well there's some benefit of course but generally it's the corporations uh the other thing is that technology companies the first questions I think if we're looking at reality banking is regulated telecommerce regulated media is regulated technology is not that pretty much answers the question right because you know in the end this Is what it is too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing that's about alcohol and cigarette smoking heating more people die from obesity every year than

from Hunger technology is the same thing too much technology can be a very bad thing and to get that into place we're going to need to find a way to create Frameworks and guardrails and now at this very moment chat GPT and don't trip AI is the guardrail moment Where people are saying you know I've read this morning basically what's happening with the AI that all of the information that you put on the internet myself included in the last 20 years is used to train the AI to act like a human in other words we

have trained the machine to become us right so a lot of these things are now under review and I think there's a big debate about this in Canada as well to create meaningful guardrails That's the job just like we did with nuclear energy except one big difference doesn't take much to build an AI it's hard to build a nuclear bomb so that's why it's urgent but I want to leave on a positive note let's not forget that the ability of AI for example to go into the cloud and run a hundred trillion versions of genomes

and figure out what causes cancer So that we can invent a new medication or a new editing process with crispr to solve cancer we could never do that without AI we don't want to get rid of all that good stuff right we want to channel it and this is why it's so important that we find the compromise and this is why I think an education is so crucial that we say all that Tech is basically good but we're going to need a lot of human skills to put it in the Right place and to put

it into perspective with everything else thank you thank you heading off towards our last question right here thank you thank you for your presentation I'm curious about your quote around Ai and machines being morally neutral when they are designed and created by humans who have their own biases that are influenced by systems of Racism sexism ableism colonialism um so when we're The Architects of that AI how are those biases not integrated into the the AI that we create yeah good question that's actually not what I meant of course all of our buyers and everything that

we are is inside of this building that we have done obviously because the data is inside but the AI the technology itself has no intent it has no intent to mess with us Right it has no intent to give us wrong information its only intent is to get the job done and therein lies the problem so when you use chat GPT and you're pushing it for an answer and you're pushing and pushing it will make up stuff because you are so hard the other day I was looking at the AI asking questions about my own

qualifications on AI And it made up research reports that mentioned me because I was pushing so hard and I clicked on the link with no page so this is interesting right so I think this is really what's happening is that technology is now becoming so powerful that it can sort of replicate itself and there we need Solutions on this I think this is really the key to our future is the wise use so ultimately I Think this is what we have as humans we have purpose understanding of who they are and the Greek word Telos

which I like a lot that's wisdom and that is the ticket to education and jobs in the future very difficult for a machine to have purpose and tell us because it's difficult for us very hard to Define what it is and how we do it impossible for a machine and that's why I think that ultimately these are great Tools we're going to use them let's figure out the best possible way forward let's not go into the future based on fear I mean we in Europe are very good at this right we are fearful and we

say okay we don't want to do this Americans are the opposite anything that's fear that jump on it because it's opportunity so we should go into the future with a Mix of skepticism and also optimism Antonio gromsky Italian right and poet once said that we should have a pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the heart I'll leave you with that thank you very much thank you uh to finish off the Finish after the uh we have with us right now Peter Devlin share of board of CI can as well as president fanshawk College to

uh Say a few words geared um I just wanted to on behalf of all of us say thank you merci thanks for making us think about the future a future that will be a good future thank you for making us think about the relationship between humans and machines humanity and Technology that were driven by technology but defined by you by you humanity and the rule that we have in the college and Institute sector to have the courage to be the architects of the future with the Humanity ethics creativity and Imagination that's in all of our

hearts and so um you also reinforce to me that I'm an optimist and I look forward to my next career as a nature deficit therapist um I think I have some some potential there but Gert on behalf of all of us uh best Boku sataya and presentations [Applause]