To the editor: Nicholas Goldberg’s column on synthetic intelligence and its position within the office is among the finest items I’ve examine AI reshaping work.
At the moment’s Ok-12 college students are making ready for jobs that don’t but exist. The pandemic highlighted the important should be adaptive and to problem-solve shortly. I couldn’t agree extra with public coverage professor Harry J. Holzer’s proposition that Ok-12 training must be retooled to organize for the twenty first century, offering our college students with communication expertise, important pondering expertise and creativity.
I can not assist however really feel we missed a golden alternative to retool public training popping out of the pandemic. As a substitute, I see faculties dusting off the pre-pandemic playbook of making ready college students for annual standardized assessments, similar to that they had for many years earlier than.
Jason Y. Calizar, Torrance
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To the editor: Goldberg wonders if AI will permit us to have a four-day work week. That may be a nice query.
The eight-hour work day turned a rallying cry for organized labor within the U.S. in 1866. The 40-hour work week turned legislation in 1940. Technological advances and productiveness have since gone via the roof, however our work hours haven’t modified.
For every advance, the carrot of extra leisure is dangled in entrance of our nostril, but it surely by no means appears truly to be given to employees. Why ought to it’s totally different with AI?
The arduous truth is that we don’t vote democratically to simply accept advances. They’re imposed on us. Often there are nice advantages to progress but in addition hardships, as our system largely benefits the few.
If we might determine whether or not to simply accept technological progress, we might add some circumstances to our approval — reminiscent of a four-day work week.
However I gained’t maintain my breath for this.
Marie Matthews, San Pedro
