Forum Radio: Roozbeh Aliabadi

Roozbeh Aliabadi (Lisbon) is an AI education entrepreneur, geopolitical commentator and former military service member with expertise in the Middle East, Central Asia and geo-economics. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, USA Today and now Forum Radio! Roozbeh talks to Jessica Fellowes about his mission to make AI education accessible worldwide, as co-founder of ReadyAI. Roozbeh is also an enthusiastic resident of Lisbon, keen to welcome his fellow Forum members there! 

Roozbeh's insight into the position of AI in our world, particularly from the point of view of future generations, is useful and balanced:  "My advice to parents is: don't focus on what your kids should be learning in terms of jobs they will be having in 10, 20 years. Because, folks, we have no idea what those jobs are going to be like. Let me give you a very good example. If you look at the Department of Labor Statistics in the U.S., they have about 740 job categories. Guess what? Every year, about 36% of those job categories are changing, 10% are vanishing, and another 22% are evolving. The truth is, we don't know what jobs are going to be like. So spend your time teaching your kids to be good humans. And then we'll worry about the rest later. On the AI domain, and I cut it short here, is: whoever tells you what AI education will look like in a year, including myself, run away."

Music by Alex Vickers