We are entering into a period where for the first time in our history, students will have more information, better information and are likely to be more knowledgeable than their teachers because of the way they will have adapted to the digital era and the world of artificial intelligence.
This has been highlighted by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad while opening the Fiji Principal's Association 130th Conference in Labasa where he says principals will already have observed that students are digitally fact-checking their teachers all the time.
The Deputy Prime Minister says as a somewhat lapsed university professor, he is deeply aware that many of the jobs for which students are being trained today at our universities may cease to exist within a decade or two, and will be replaced by artificial intelligence.
He says Large Language Models and the things that come out of them are going to change the world in a profound way and in some areas, jobs will be replaced by AI even by the time the current students graduate.
Professor Prasad says it is indeed possible that some of the subjects that we teach will become redundant in the way they are framed today.
While addressing the principals, Professor Prasad says they need them at the cutting edge of these developments and ideas to help shape the educational system for this new world and adds we will catch up.
