Tim Dasey has spent 30 years at MIT working on national security programs. He recently wrote Wisdom Factories: AI, Games, and the Education of a Modern Worker.
We talked about:
- the need to adapt the education system for the AI era;
- experiential learning techniques;
- wisdom skills vs. narrow expertise;
- prompt engineering and big picture problem solving;
- the utility of standardized testing;
- how the right and left brain influence behavior;
- why regulating technology in the past was easier;
- the challenges of regulating AI; and
- a dystopian or utopian future?
A transcript for this podcast is available here.