Anya Kamenetz - Human Wisdom vs. Artificial Intelligence, or Monkeys vs. Robots
Channel: UMW Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Date: 2018-07-30

Collectively, our civilization is currently experiencing what Carl Sagan called a technological adolescence, and it’s a rocky one. Virtual realities, false narratives, persuasive technologies seem to be intruding everywhere and threatening what’s human and real. Commercial interests overrun any sense of a public sphere. “Personalization” replaces the personal. Your attention is the prize; eyeballs are the money.

But children and youth have always shown humanity how to adapt. They bring out our greatest love and concern, our most visceral empathy, even as they reawaken our curiosity and sense of wonder.

These are precisely the superpowers we need to fight the robot army and construct a more humane digital world.