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Stephen Downes

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Miguel Guhlin finds himself "fascinated by Xunzi, whom I never read or heard about in school and only found thanks to AI analysis of a draft of my writing, and its relevance to our AI moment." Based on this, he comes up with "a 'Xunzian' approach to AI in education created with Perplexity." It's the CARES model (because educators can't resist a mnemonic):

  • C – Cultivate Habits
  • A – Augment Teachers
  • R – Reach Everyone
  • E – Ethical Use
  • S – Stay Curious

"Xunzi... focused on humanity's part in creating the roles and practices of an orderly society, and gave a much smaller role to Heaven or Nature as a source of order or morality than most other thinkers of the time."

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