“We must prepare students for jobs that don’t exist yet,” says the AI consultant-enthusiast.
“No we don’t,” is the sanest of all replies.
As educators with common sense, what we need to do is ignore these AI consultants and Ed Tech prognosticators completely.
They have no crystal ball and can’t see into the future any better than anyone else.
Predictions are guesses. Predictions are NOT facts. Especially facts to be acted upon or to base life-impacting decisions on what we do with our students.
As philosopher Carissa Veliz writes: “An assertion about the future can be many things—an estimate, a desire, a warning—but never a fact.”
So, educators and school leaders can ignore and discard these baseless predictions about some future notion of what the job status of their students will be.
Their predictions are not substantive enough on which to base decisions about anybody’s life. To do so is severe malpractice.
And, the next time Bill Gates, Sam Altman or Jensen Huang spouts some prophecy? Take it for what it is: a prediction no better than that of a soothsayer predicting based upon his view of a pig’s entrails. They are just hyping for business.
Instead, you are an educator and smart enough to figure out AI for yourself and what place it should have in your teaching. You have to consider the long-term view when it comes to students’ lives, and AI may or may not be a part of that. Only the future knows.
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