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Pete Buttigieg: “There's no more reason to expect automatically that [AI]…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 11:34

So educational institutions will of course have to develop policies that will support the building of tools that we need to do on our own. But I think There's no more reason to expect automatically that [AI] will make us worse at thinking than it is to assume that the advent of the calculator makes us worse at math. Okay, that's a good optimistic answer. I like it, I like it. Your kids will go to kindergarten and they won't be given calculators to do math. (11:34–11:46)

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Asserts that AI will not necessarily degrade thinking skills.

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