Revista Ñ reports on an interview with Orit Halpern, held during RED’s conference in the City of Buenos Aires in September 2024. „Education is so important because that’s where we train and teach people to think differently“
“Reading, writing and narrating the world differently. With an enthusiasm that defies the virulence of the times that surround us, Orit Halpern invites us to explore the intersections of education, artificial intelligence, cognitivism and even economic theory. Orit is an American historian who talks to us about all this in a FLACSO classroom on a Buenos Aires midday.
Freedom, equality and ‘fraternity’: speculative history of artificial intelligence’ was the title of the keynote given by Halpern at a conference organised by Reconfigurations of Educational Inequality (RED), the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI) and FLACSO.
The expert in digital culture surprised the audience by adding to her hypotheses the theory of economist Friedrich Hayek: “The particular point is that each member (neuron, buyer or seller) is induced to do what, in the overall circumstances, benefits the system”.
The full article (in Spanish) is available here: https://www.clarin.com/revista-n/orit-halpern-educacion-importante-ahi-formamos-ensenamos-gente-pensar-manera_0_M6AhhR8e6J.html
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