Education, Opportunity, and the Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines

This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the best route to social mobility and economic growth. My challenge draws on a long career of international research, including ongoing conversations with corporate leaders and technologists. I will show how AI is being used to ‘capture’ human knowledge and redefine what it means to be educated,…