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AI_Era_Education

AI Era Education  The Subjects Schools Don't Teach… But what the Future Demands in this AI era: Students should Learn to understand about themselves, society, nature, intelligence, and the future. Imagine graduating with perfect examination scores, but without understanding how your brain works, how artificial intelligence makes decisions, how money grows, why people disagree, how your genes respond to the environment, or how the natural world sustains life. Students may know mathematics, science, history, and languages (can use AI tools to get the information), but the main question is do the student know how to manage your emotions, recognize misinformation, overcome procrastination, understand financial risks, collaborate with intelligent machines, or make decisions that protect the planet? ...

Environmental Justice

I had written an earlier blog post: Industries over Environment Just saw a program on how indusries (especially foreign industries) are built by covering dried water bodies. Even though these industrial programs have programs towards greening the environment, they have done everything against environment in building these industries in Sriperumbudur, India. Another earlier blog: Eco Vs Eco One future environmental engineer asked me the following question regarding the above blog post: hello dr.makesh, Considering your opinion on the Environment Ministry's decision on disallowing Vedanta from mining bauxite in Orissa I have a doubt. Where do you think should we draw a line between environmental importance and economic importance? Since I am new to this field I am still confused what viewpoint to take! I have an opinion that in the name of environmental protection we should not be a barrier to development (in this case bauxite is very important for us too). Please cor...