The Challenging Impacts of Transformative Events like COVID and AI on Education

We are still recoiling from the COVID pandemic which killed over a million Americans and damaged millions more. Years before, many scientists warned that we were not prepared for a major epidemic. But instead of listening to the scientists, our leader ignored the facts. Stupidity, not ignorance, overshadowed reality.

In the last decade, scientists and others have warned us about an alien intelligence which will completely reorder our world. They advised that this new AI must be tightly regulated and controlled because of its power and its potential to be misused.

During COVID, teachers were on the front lines of working remotely with our kids in impossible circumstances. Dan graphically describes just how difficult that was. He and Ed draw an analogy between our failure to prepare for COVID and our failure to retool our public schools to deal with AI.