Dr. David Eagleman

You can be reading books, you can be listening to podcasts, anything like that.

OK, so there's that.

But the other half that I would say is a lot of what we care to be depends a lot on what's going on in the future.

And I'm fascinated by for children now in schools.

what choices they should make, because who the heck knows what careers are going to exist in 20 or 30 years from now.

Therefore, the main things that you can concentrate on, I think, are critical thinking and creativity.

Those are the main things for them to figure out how to do.

Yeah.

Here's something I find very optimistic about AI in the realm of education.

You know, in any classroom, it's going too fast for half the kids and too slow for the other half of the kids.

What we now have the opportunity for is really individualized education.

One way this could be implemented is AI debate.

So you take any hot button issue, abortion, gun control, whatever you want, and you debate with the AI.

And you get graded based on the quality of your arguments.

And then you switch sides and you take the other side and you argue again.

This is the kind of thing you could never have enough teachers for.

They would never have enough patience for.

AI is terrific at this.

And by the way, it's really important so that students get a 360 view of issues instead of ideological capture.

So this is a terrific way to teach critical thinking to every student, not just the kids on the speech and debate team.