Harnessing AI: The Brain Hacks to Teach Kids with Author Mohan Nair

About this episode

Mohan Nair discusses how to prepare children for an AI-enabled future and shares insights from his book 'Unreachable'.

Mohan Nair has written what he calls 'the nutrition label for AI'. Rather than a 'warning label', this is just saying here are all the ingredients we need to be aware of so that we can use AI in a way that benefits our health rather than the other way around. More specifically in this episode we are looking at the ways in which children and young people an prepare to become 'Unreachable'. This is the title of Mohan's book. After much research in the corporate world where he has worked with innovators from companies across the spectrum, Mohan has analysed what that world will want from its future workforce and the real, practical advice he would offer to families who want to prepare their children to be AI-enabled, rather than AI-afraid or AI-obsessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Melissa Chan-Green

Guest: Mohan Nair

Topics covered

• AI education
• children's development
• parenting advice
• future workforce
• technology in education

Keywords

• AI
• children
• parenting
• education
• future workforce
• technology
• Mohan Nair

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acast

Books & works: Unreachable

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