Here’s a general outline of a ChatGPT researched project to get a real sense of what education would be “about” and “for” in an AI- driven world. Put simply, what do students need to learn about and be educated for in a much different employment and economic role?
To achieve some semblance of a goal or direction for future education, we also need to understand how our civilization is changing driven by current and upcoming AI capabilities. A following series of posts address this question in some depth following the below outline approximately.
Civilization Reimagined: Ideologies, Realities, and Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
• The Two Understandings of Civilization
• Why AI Forces a Reexamination
3. Civilizational Frameworks
• Ideological Civilization: Narratives, systems, and cultural explanations
• Empirical Civilization: Interactions, behaviors, and material realities
4. Five Theorists on Civilization and Education
• McLuhan: The Medium as Message
• Giddens: Structuration and Social Practice
• Illich: Deschooling and Decentralized Learning
• Foucault: Surveillance and Power in Institutions
• Harari: AI, Dataism, and the Risk of Human Irrelevance
5. Modeling Three Educational Futures
• Scenario A: AI Dominance
• Scenario B: Human-AI Partnership
• Scenario C: AI Decentralization and Learning Webs
• Comparative Table
6. Implications and Questions
• What values survive or disappear?
• What becomes of agency, identity, and meaning?
• What might we teach future generations about civilization itself?
7. Conclusion • Toward a Civilizational Meta-Literacy