Ray Kurzweil

We have the technology now to measure that you're doing something productive.

That should be good enough.

So switch the whole curriculum to, look, if you're doing something productive, we're good enough with that.

We'll grade it.

We'll give you a degree.

you'll you'll be moving on whatever your life trajectory is much earlier because it's a lot better than dropping out and you do whatever you want but we know that ai will make it all available to you and we'll teach it to you better than any any professor could ever teach it anyway ray what do you think university should or mit should be teaching that it's not right now i mean what it is doing is teaching socialization getting along with other people um

It's not really teaching you subjects, because already AI can teach you those subjects much better, can actually organize it in a way that's easier for you to understand.

So learning subjects is not really what education is good at, at least not today.

But socialization is good, and that's really what education will be.

That's fine.

That's Salim.

Yeah, so I think just to build on what Ray said and also what Dave said, there's a monster flipping happening, which is that for the last 200 years, we've been teaching education for supply-side economics.

Go learn a skill, go learn a craft, become a doctor, a lawyer, a web engineer, whatever, and then go to the job market and try and find demand for that supply.

What we're seeing now is it's flipping around to the demand side where we're saying to kids, what problem do you want to solve?

And then go find the techniques, capabilities, skills to solve that problem.

That's where the future will be to flip to the demand side because so much will be done on the supply side by technology anyway.

Focus on the demand side.

That's such a huge flip for the traditional education system, which has the second worst immune system anywhere.

Religion is the worst.

Academia will already help you if you try and update that.