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AI’s challenge to universities: What happens when EQ trumps IQ?
Artificial intelligence will soon surpass knowledge workers in most tasks for which they are trained. Should universities switch from educating the mind to educating the heart?
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Artificial intelligence is already changing our relationship to information, from how we seek it to how we produce it, says the writer.
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Simon Chesterman and Loy Hui Chieh
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Nov 30 marks the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT – though few professors will be celebrating.
As the large language model raced towards a hundred million users back in 2022, academic social media was abuzz with gloomy speculation about how this transformative technology that simulated human reasoning and communication might be used by our students to cheat in their papers.
