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- To build a more AI-literate society,
we need to act at two levels.
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There's a first level,
which is, of course, all the practitioners,
the people who code, who develop, who build AI engines.
And here, it's extremely important
that we deploy guidelines, frames of reference
for people to remain in the boundaries
of what is deemed responsible AI.
Then, there's another level, which is the general public.
The users, everyone.
And here, I see a massive gap.
People do not really understand what AI stands for.
Sometimes, they see it
as an alternative to human intelligence,
which it is not.
It's just a set of rules.
We know we have a massive problem
of access to global education around the world,
and AI is a solve there.
I've seen some AI engines
who start to act as coaches for children,
teaching them how to write, how to read, how to count
in a very personalized manner,
with superb results in terms of learning for kids.
And the beauty of those engines?
They are cheap, they are scalable,
and they will change global education.
Today, at school, at universities,
students need to learn about Python and computing languages,
and we had this weird debate in France
where a politician asked whether kids at school
were better off learning Python or ancient Greek,
and my answer is obviously, they need both.
They need to understand what programming is all about,
they need to be able to program,
but they also need humanities,
because if we want to deploy responsible AI,
we need people who understand responsibility,
and humanities are the mandatory complement to Python
if we want to educate well-rounded citizens for the future.