Felienne Hermans: A Marxist take on AI in education!
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AI is going to revolutionize the world! Superintelligence can soon do everything, from writing code to reading books and inventing new enzymes. Who still needs to learn anything?
Well, not so fast! In this talk, Felienne Hermans, professor of Computer Science Education will look at AI in education from a historical perspective and examine what we might lose when we introduce automation, with an unlikely side-kick: Karl Marx. Cause he had a thing or two to say about the effects of automation.
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Felienne is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Lyceum Kralingen in the Codasium program.
Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching.
She is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain“, a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research. She also has a weekly column on BNR, a Dutch radio station.