[ExI] ai in education

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai in education

 

On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

 >>… The student questioned if he should be studying how to install heating and air conditioning units rather than bothering to master computer science.

 

>…Currently manual dexterity is tricky for AI so air conditioning repair would temporarily save that student's job, it will certainly last longer than computer programming but in just a few years even that job will go away. I predict the very last Human job to go extinct, if you don't count "the oldest profession", will be that of a nursing home orderly.  

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

The best students will be needed post singularity (assuming humans survive) to be interfaces between AI and BI.

 

spike

 

 

 

   

 

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