Opinion: AI in education will help us understand how we think

Professor Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab) writes in the Financial Times, saying robot teachers are just the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence and education. Forget robot teachers, adaptive intelligent tutors and smart essay marking software - these are not the future of artificial intelligence in education but merely a step along the way. The real power that AI brings to education is connecting our learning intelligently to make us smarter in the way we understand ourselves, the world and how we teach and learn. For the first time we will be able to extend, develop and measure the complexity of human intelligence - an intellect that is more sophisticated than any AI. This will revolutionise the way we think about human intelligence. We take much of our intelligence for granted. For example, when travelling to an unfamiliar country, I recognise a slight anxiety when ordering food in a foreign language and feel the pleasure when my meal arrives as requested.