Growth Summit: AI will advance, but the future of education will always be human, Dubai Cares CEO says

Growth Summit: AI will advance, but the future of education will always be human, Dubai Cares CEO says

LONDON/GENEVA: The future of education will always be human despite the advances of artificial intelligence, Dubai Cares CEO and Vice Chairman Dr. Tariq Al Gurg said on Tuesday.

Al Gurg, who was speaking at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit in Geneva, said that AI will radically transform education systems and their human capital, but not replace them.

He told Arab News: “In my opinion, the future will always be human. And if we think otherwise, then it’s not a human-centric world.”

Dubai Cares, the philanthropic organization founded by UAE Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in 2007, is dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people through quality education, while positioning it at the heart of human development.

Al Gurg said that the world was similarly concerned when computers became popular, but people still kept their jobs, and “everything went normal.”

He added: “Whether we were at clerks level or management level, we needed to (keep) upskilling ourselves.”

Some jobs would be lost and others created but, he said, “this is a cycle that will remain, and the future will remain human.”

He said that the traditional system of education needs to transform to meet challenges, starting with the roles of teachers and the