Anthony Seldon - The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate Or Infantilise Humanity

The
Fourth Education
Revolution
Reconsidered

Will Artificial Intelligence Enrich
or Diminish Humanity?

Anthony Seldon

With Timothy Metcalf
and
Oladimeji Abidoye

University of Buckingham Press

This book is based on The Fourth Education Revolution, published by University of Buckingham Press in 2018.

Copyright Anthony Seldon, 2020

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Dedication

To Tim and Sarah Bunting, inspirers and supporters of many remarkable education projects over the last ten years.

All royalties from the sale of the book go to the Jo Cox Foundation

Jo Cox personified human intelligence at its best

Metal & coach workers pose in front of the Benz & Co. factory in Mannheim.

AI is here in education. To understand the stage we are with its arrival, we can draw an analogy from the car industry in 1886. Karl Benz had just helped invent the internal combustion engine. People had no idea how the invention would take off, or that it would transform human life across the planet. The comparison is flawed though in one respect. AI will be more transformative than the car and will transport humans much, much further.

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AI in education has been the Cinderella of the AI story, largely ignored in the literature and by governments, companies and educational institutions worldwide. This needs to change rapidly: AI should be the fairy-tale princess or the Prince Charming in education.