| | OCTOBER 202319There could be a time in our students' careers when plagiarism could be considered a virtue if it met the criteria of "innovative combination" where, according to you.com (another AI Bot)As Stephen puts it, if they can't produce more insightful analysis and solutions than A.I. then they will be working at robot-wages of $20 per month. A.I. Bots have already passed multiple professional examinations (legal, medical, MBA) with distinction and can interpret all connected data relating to any combination of professional enquiry. It will not be long before A.I. Bots become accredited and are allowed to perform some of the duties of most professionals (at robot rates) for example, to diagnose but not prescribe. This will lead, of course, to humans employing such A.I. Bots as personal assistants rather than the less reliable humans.If you haven't already, do enter a question or two into ChatGPT. This technology is in its infancy and is about to start shooting up the hockey-stick graph of evolution and development in getting more `life-like' and better at avoiding obvious errors, see how competent the responses already are.The significant differentiator for our students as they enter adulthood and the world of work is how to use their empathy and other `human virtues' to identify the pain points humans experience in every-day interactions, be that the mundane but stressful process of buying property, to life-changing decisions regarding an individual's health and well-being. With every module on the BBA built around a main `challenge' (such as building a startup or a social enterprise, or working as consultants for a live client) the challenge for the Future Proofing module uses Stephen's bespoke methodology that allows students (and anyone) to quantify the value that a potential solution has on the end-user or consumer. This is not just about the amount of money that consumer is willing to invest to alleviate the `pain' of the given problem. It is also about the time and effort they would need to spend adopting behaviours that would be considered virtuous in the context of the impact the pain has on their lives. That said, by approximating the value impact in the life of a typical consumer, the student is able to determine if the total investment will be regarded as worth it by the consumer before any investment in a good idea is required. Thereby reducing risk and cost to any investor.This methodology unlocks the personal critical thinking capacity to solve problems in a novel manner by including human behavioural properties that A.I. simply does not have. The challenge put to our first cohort of students to go through the redesigned Future Proofing module is how to improve healthcare for the patient, the consumer, when all systems ­ whether private or publicly funded ­ have no more money to invest? Whilst some proposed solutions are very pedestrian, some have soared into the clouds with analysis and creative problem solving that would be the envy of any consulting firm and impossible for A.I. to replicate.For example, one of the teams' good ideas included leveraging those medical doctors who preferred to be guided by their conscience rather than using a herd average when determining benefits versus risk assessments based upon an individual's condition and circumstances. Interestingly the students in question worked out that if you did not have a conscience then you could not fully anticipate the impact of conscientious behaviour on systems or factor in their value potential or employ them in the solution set.The question for us all, therefore, as we go into this brave new world of science fiction becoming reality and A.I. sounding more eloquent and more knowledgeable than highly educated humans, is not `how can we mitigate its effects?' but `how can we make A.I. work for us?'. How can we ensure that mundane tasks make best use of A.I. liberating time for us humans to do what we can really excel at: showing empathy to our fellow human, identifying and reducing the pain and discomfort of others, at the emotional and psychological level.
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