The role of education in AI (and vice versa)

Princeton's head of computer science, Jennifer Rexford, explains how artificial intelligence is set to change not only what teachers teach but how they teach. The field of education is searching for ways to respond to the fast-approaching impact of artificial intelligence (AI) across all sectors and fields, including its own. In this conversation with Jennifer Rexford, computer-science chair at Princeton University, she explains how this requires not only focusing on teaching different skills to prepare today's youth for work in an AI world but also employing AI to adopt novel ways of teaching. She also reiterates a common call for including diversity of thought in developing AI to utilize it successfully. An edited transcript of Rexford's remarks follows.