How to Make Humans Robot Proof.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Should you learn prompt engineering, maybe a physical trade?

There's almost no skill that AI won't eventually surpass, according to neuroscientist Vivian

Ming.

In her new book, Robot Proof, she argues, humans still have qualities AI can't replicate,

like curiosity, social intelligence, and a sense of

inner purpose, and honing those makes us better partners to AI. Ming has found in experiments

that the most capable form of intelligence is neither human nor AI on its own, but both working together in ways that play to each of their

strengths, what she calls the cyborg model. When you put humans and machines together, but the

humans don't just do what the AI says, you see this amazing complementarity. So I actually have a paper

coming out where I play D&D with both Gemini and

Claude. And oh my goodness, when Gemini was the dungeon master, it didn't understand what it knew

versus what my character knew versus what I knew. These systems are simply not intelligent the way humans are. But at the same time,

it came up with an entire world in a story in 30 seconds. And it was amazing. So it's simultaneously

superhuman and yet struggles with seemingly easy concepts, that's great. Something that's good

at what we're not, and we are amazing at things it can't do. That's the way I like to look at this.

Do we have the systems in place in education, in career development, to foster the kind of qualities that you're talking about,

that make humans, you know, the most optimized partner for using these tools in a way that is

constructive? Absolutely no standard education system is really engaging with this. Did any of us take a course on curiosity?

Did we take a series on resilience? And I'm going to say one other thing. We have to be realistic

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