Professor Po-Shen Loh to talk at Davis Senior High School about raising kids to thrive alongside AI

Po-Shen LohPhoto byPetra Lein / Wikimedia Commons

Carnegie Mellon Professor Po-Shen Loh will speak at Davis Senior High School on November 2 about raising children to thrive without being elbowed out of the way by automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The event will begin at 6:30 pm. It is intended for parents of school children. Free tickets can be obtained online.

A professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2010, Loh, 42, "is on a mission to help humanity thrive in the age of AI," according to his website. The father of three has founded the educational websites Expii and LIVE. More than 200 videos have been posted on his YouTube channel.

Many school children want to go to a prestigious university and then get a well-paid, undemanding job, said Loh, at a conference in Washington, D.C. in January. Those jobs were the ones that Silicon Valley AI startups were aiming to eliminate first, he added.

Children should be taught to look for ways of giving things of value to the world rather than ways of taking value from the world, he stressed. They should also be taught to find satisfaction in hard work, he said. Teachers were always going to be outperformed by AI at providing objective explanations, so educators had to excel at empathy and emotional intelligence, he said.

Loh's November 2 presentation in Davis is being supported by the Davis High School Mu Alpha Theta Math Club and the Folsom Chinese School.