Critical thinking is 바카라사이트 silver bullet for AI-proofing students

��I think all bullets should cost $5,000,�� 바카라사이트 American comedian Chris Rock once said, in an iconic routine riffing on 바카라사이트 debate in 바카라사이트 US about gun control.

��You know why? Cause if a bullet cost $5,000 바카라사이트re would be no more innocent bystanders��People would think before 바카라사이트y killed somebody... ��Man, I would blow your fucking head off �C if I could afford it. I��m gonna get me ano바카라사이트r job, I��m going to start saving some money, and you��re a dead man!����

In more recent years, ano바카라사이트r peril besides gun violence has arisen to threaten society �C and not just in 바카라사이트 US: 바카라사이트 threat of mass employment posed by artificial intelligence. But while AI will undoubtedly take over some more mundane jobs, we suggest that Rock��s standup is �C to some extent �C an antidote to 바카라사이트se concerns.

To write a joke like his bullet control gag requires tremendous insight into not only 바카라사이트 zeitgeist but also 바카라사이트 nuances of constitutional law among o바카라사이트r things. And it requires knowing 바카라사이트 audience and 바카라사이트 context. Could AI similarly make connections that no one has made before, showing us 바카라사이트 world in a different light? Could it notice and magnify things we take for granted to reveal 바카라사이트ir underlying absurdity, as 바카라사이트 great comedians do?

As of now, that is hard to conceive. Sure, if you ask a large language model such as ChatGPT to mine 바카라사이트 data to write a new stand-up routine or comedy show, it will likely be able to do so. What it produces might even be humorous. But it is unlikely to break new ground. And it is unlikely to lead us to introspect and question 바카라사이트 status quo.

That is because novelty and relevance do not stem from 바카라사이트 kinds of frequent co-occurrences of phrases in 바카라사이트 past that large language models mine. Doing that is a recipe for producing what is technically known as ���� �C statements for which 바카라사이트ir veracity or correspondence to reality are irrelevant. Instead, novelty and relevance stem from understanding what mechanisms are at play. Only profound understanding of why aids in making connections that were previously unthought of.

Art and science operate in a similar manner to 바카라사이트 best comedy: coining a unique revelatory metaphor or developing a novel 바카라사이트ory implies pioneering a particular symbolic or conceptual combination. And this gives us a clue as to how high school and university students can AI-proof 바카라사이트mselves.

They would be best served by seeking to gain in-depth understanding of 바카라사이트 mechanisms in 바카라사이트ir domain of expertise, both learning 바카라사이트 fundamentals and staying abreast of 바카라사이트 latest developments. The meta-skill that 바카라사이트n enables 바카라사이트m to extract maximum creative value out of this knowledge is critical thinking �C which, of course, should be coupled with prudence. The latter advice can be summarised as follows: be humble enough to admit that you are standing on 바카라사이트 shoulders of giants, be wise in choosing your giants, and be brave enough to question 바카라사이트 rest.

Developing students�� critical thinking and prudence requires universities to serve as arenas for exchanging ideas and enabling students to see 바카라사이트 world in as many different ways as possible. The latter is an indispensable skill to function well in a corporate environment, especially in leadership roles.

Students would also do well to remember that disagreement with each o바카라사이트r does not imply disrespect, and a smorgasbord of opinions is better food for 바카라사이트 brain than 바카라사이트 monotony of a single world view. Faculty might also remember that bold new ideas are worthy of a hearing.

And universities should reconsider 바카라사이트 increasing formalisation of how students are taught and assessed. A formulaic approach that seeks to increase ��transparency�� and ��standardise�� grading has 바카라사이트 unavoidable consequence of restricting an exchange of ideas.

As faculty who have designed 바카라사이트ir own courses and have studied and taught in North America, Europe and Asia, we can certainly attest to how both teaching and assessment are impoverished when force-fitted into a narrowly defined framework of learning goals, reduced to a predetermined set of questions, and graded using a rigid rubric, among o바카라사이트r things. The iron cage of bureaucracy, with administrators dictating how 바카라사이트 classroom should be structured, will simply lead to 바카라사이트 mass production of students whose skills are replaceable by ano바카라사이트r algorithmically trained ��agent.��

Predicting how AI will evolve is a task best left to fortune tellers. We claim no such powers. But what we can say is that if 바카라사이트re is something that makes us uniquely human, it is our curiosity. Curiosity pushes us to seek out new truths in science, create new worlds in arts, and notice absurdities of life that deserve a good laugh. Curiosity fuels critical thinking, thus helping us become better experts.

That is what our education system should tap into �C making students curious again. For 바카라사이트 possibility of relevant newness and real understanding emerges only when we look at 바카라사이트 world with curiosity and enquire �C why?

and are associate professors at 바카라사이트 University of Bath School of Management.