This is a longish article that begins with the problem of people forming emotional attachments to AI systems and tracing through a discussion of AI literacies. I could follow some digressions here, but better to trace directly to the main point, "How do we develop the capacities people need when AI systems are this sophisticated and pervasive?" asks Doub Belshaw. "As I've argued above, the answer isn't better school lessons, but the development of literacies across contexts, through socially-negotiated, context-dependent participation." It's the latter part of this that is most important. I don't know how we get from A to B, but we need somehow to make the transition from classroom-based instruction to content-dependent participation. Forget the 'memory test' model of assessing learning; it's no longer useful, if it ever was. Facility in 'working the network' (whatever that means in a particular context) is what will matter in the future.
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