In the age of AI, we need a human-centered society more than ever | by Mitchel Resnick | Medium
Earlier this year, I participated in the SIGCSE conference, the special interest group for computer science education. Cecilia Aragon, a professor at University of Washington, gave the opening keynote and she focused on the idea of “Human-Centered AI”. It was certainly a timely topic, and I agreed with much of what she had to say. As we design new AI tools, it is certainly important that we take into account the needs, the interests, and the experiences of people. But as I thought about it, I felt that the framing of “human-centered AI” was too narrow. As AI technologies spread through our society and our culture, we need to think beyond the design of the AI tools themselves. So when I gave my talk at the conference the next day, I argued that we need to work towards a more human-centered society, and we need to create a more human-centered education so that young people develop the skills and mindsets they’ll need to create and flourish in today’s fast-changing world. That might seem
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