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Sep 21, 2026 
Daniel Susskind, an Oxford AI ethics researcher and economist, explores how artificial intelligence could transform careers and education. They discuss why literacy, numeracy and attention still matter, the role of smartphones and social media, and how to use AI critically despite its errors. Susskind also considers choosing meaningful problems over fixed job titles, lifelong retraining, AI tutors, creativity and copyright.
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Build The Basics Before Future Skills
- Future advanced skills remain unknowable, but literacy and numeracy will support whatever becomes valuable.
- These basics function as foundations for creativity, judgment, and problem solving.
Screen Content Matters More Than Screen Time
- Social media can distract and disempower, while AI can improve lives when used purposefully.
- The key educational question is what happens on screens, not simply how much screen time children get.
Teach Attention Alongside AI
- Teach children to recognize distraction and use AI critically rather than banning the technology outright.
- Susskind argues attention itself can be learned, despite platforms engineered to capture it.
