What podcasts say about Daniel Susskind
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What Daniel Susskind has said on podcasts
21 statements · 16 positive · 1 mixed · 4 neutral
Future advanced skills will depend on foundational literacy and numeracy.
“whatever those advanced skills turn out to be they are going to rely in some way on people having those basics in place”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 5:25
Restrictions on children’s social-media access are beneficial.
“I think many of the ideas that are gaining traction for restricting children's access to social media, things like no smartphones before 14 no social media before 16 phone free schools lots of play i think all of these are terrific things”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 7:36
Properly used AI could substantially improve people’s lives.
“artificial intelligence, if used in the right way, has the potential to make our lives go vastly better”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 8:26
Education systems should establish an AI curriculum.
“we need to have an AI curriculum”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 11:04
About one-third of education time should teach critical technology use.
“I think we need to be spending about a third of our time in education. teaching people how to use these technologies critically”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 11:14
Attention and resistance to distraction can be learned.
“the paying attention or not being distracted the more we learn about it is is that it is a skill that can be learned”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 11:32
People should be taught to use AI critically.
“we have to be teaching people to make critical use of these technologies”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 16:18
AI-generated rewrites can prompt discussion about human capabilities.
“I think it prompts a really interesting conversation”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 19:03
Lawyer and doctor jobs will change dramatically in coming years.
“what those jobs look like are going to change dramatically in the coming years”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 21:32
Legal and medical problems will continue to exist.
“these problems aren't going away”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 21:52
AI technologies can cross traditional disciplinary and occupational boundaries.
“these technologies just don't have a lot of respect for the traditional boundaries that we have drawn between different subjects and different disciplines and different occupations and different jobs”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 23:54
Young people should focus on problems and remain open to changing jobs and skills.
“you have to focus on the problems you're interested in solving and be open to the job that you have and the skills that you're required to learn as time passes, just looking very different”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 24:07
A-level choices should balance foundational learning with practical preparation.
“I think it's a balance of two things”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 24:40
Critical thinking is preferable to relying primarily on philosophy.
“I'd go back to critical thinking”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 25:39
Flexibility and retraining are the best responses to AI-era uncertainty.
“the best response any of us really have to uncertainty is flexibility, a capacity and a willingness to retrain and reskill”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 27:21
Governments, companies, and individuals should prioritize adult education.
“we just need to take adult education far more seriously”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 27:44
One-to-one human tutoring outperforms traditional classroom instruction for most students.
“an average student who receives one-to-one tuition with a human being will tend to outperform 98% of students in a traditional classroom setting”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 28:45
AI tutoring can rival most teachers for understanding unfamiliar problems.
“The kind of personalized interaction you can have with these systems in trying to understand new and unfamiliar problems really does rival, in my view, 95% of teachers that I've seen”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 29:20
AI systems can provide personalized educational interaction.
“they really are remarkable in the way that they can offer this personalized interaction”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 30:07
ChatGPT enables Daniel to learn watchmaking without residential training.
“The idea that I could become a horologist you know without going for a kind of four week residential camp somewhere in the north of england to understand how watchers work and house repentance unimaginable until very recently and now it's something that i'm i'm uh i'm able to do”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 31:37
Current AI and early-internet technology conflicts are meaningfully analogous.
“there's a really interesting analogy, I think, between what's going on in the world of artificial intelligence at the moment and what happened at the start of the internet era”
Open the episode · What Career Should You Choose in the AI Age?Listen at 33:32
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