The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 heralded a new era in which students, professionals, and the general public gained widespread access to highly capable AI tools. Students now possess unprecedented resources that can generate coherent essays, compose poetry, solve complex STEM problems, and develop code at a level once reserved for domain experts.
Despite this, the response from educational institutions has been surprisingly muted and fragmented. Policies have tended to emerge at the individual school or instructor level, with few systemic, sector-wide changes.
AI tools should become a central part of how we get educated and trained. Education must be first and foremost about growing human intellectual potential.
Educational and training systems must consider providing instant access to expertise, creating tight feedback loops for skill development, facilitating individualized education and training, shifting from just-in-case to just-in-time skill acquisition, enhancing skills testing, and implementing flexible credentialing to accommodate the rapidly evolving landscape of in-demand competencies.