Education is universally acknowledged to be of huge long term benefit in developing and developed countries alike. In highly developed countries, such as in North America and Western Europe, young people sometimes pursue much higher levels of education than is practically needed for the career that they enter into. In this article, we weigh up the two motivating (and sometimes conflicting) goals of education: learning skills, and certification of ability.…

There are many journalists, authors, researchers and commentators who are predicting a metaphorical tsunami of jobs, careers and even entire industries, being automated by recent developments in the field of AI. In some aspects, their claims are not without merit. But, as we explore in this article, AI won’t replace all human workers. In this short analysis, we delve into the heart of what it means to be a human,…