Educators will need more than ever to understand the unique value of a human and to perceive large language models as legitimate and useful sources of ideas rather than shortcuts and avenues for cheating, according to tech-focused educational entrepreneur and author Priten Shah. Shah told University World News that the rapid development of artificial intelligence should prompt a re-evaluation of education’s ‘three Rs’ – away from reading, writing and arithmetic and towards “rhetoric, relationships and reasoning”. In a forthcoming book, AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the age of artificial intelligence, Shah defines that unique value as the capacity for emotional connection with other humans.
