Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (The MIT Press)

How to educate the next generation of college students to invent to create and to discover?filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.Driverless cars are hitting the road powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs open doors win Jeopardy analyze stocks work in factories find parking spaces advise oncologists. In the past automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now many high-skilled functions including interpreting medical images doing legal research and analyzing data are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing? In Robot-Proof Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent to create and to discover?to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.A ?robot-proof? education Aoun argues is not concerned solely