Symposium on artificial intelligence

MUSCAT: The University of Oman and the Science & Technology Project, in association with Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), organised a symposium on “Future of Education and Works in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at the SQU Grand Hall on Wednesday.

In the first session, Dr. Joseph Aoun, an internationally renowned linguist and authority on higher education policy, introduced his book ‘Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.

He said that in this age of artificial intelligence and sophisticated robotics, machines would soon outperform human beings at predictable mental tasks.

Universities must therefore learn to educate people for work beyond the scope of automation—namely, creation and collaboration, invention and empathy.

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