Manolis Kellis

Maybe we need better general thinkers.

And the push that we've had towards the sort of very strict IQ based, you know, tests that basically test, you know, only quantitative skills and programming skills and math skills and physics skills.

maybe we don't need those anymore.

Maybe AI will be very good at those.

Maybe what we should be training is general thinkers.

And yes, you know, like, you know, I put my kids through Russian math.

Why do I do that?

Because it teaches them how to think.

And that's what I tell my kids.

I'm like, you know, AI can compute for you.

You don't need that.

But what you need is learn how to think.

And that's why you're here.

And

I think challenging students with more complex problems, with more multi-dimensional problems, with more logical problems, I think is sort of perhaps a very fine direction that education can go towards.

with the understanding that a lot of the traditionally, you know, scientific disciplines perhaps will be more easily solved by AI.

And sort of thinking about bringing up our kids to be productive, to be contributing to society, rather than to only have a job because we prohibited AI from having those jobs, I think is the way to the future.

And if you sort of focus on overall productivity,

then let the AIs come in, let everybody become more productive.

What I told my students is you're not gonna be replaced by AI, but you're gonna be replaced by people who use AI in your job.