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Artificial Intelligence and Labor: Media and Information Competencies Opportunities for Higher Education

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging in our daily lives, making wiser robots and machine learning a reality. Some of our important decisions, either professional or personal, such as in the realm of entertainment, are already predetermined by the algorithms of AI. Our society, and our workforce, including university graduates, will soon, if not now, face unanticipated challenges in the labor market, not to mention their daily routines, due to new “learned” machine actions. Educational systems have the challenge and opportunity to train and re-train the new cadre of professionals in the development of more cognitive skills. Among these skills are Information competencies—the knowledge tools of any cognitive human action— that will enable them to compete in the job arena. In this conceptual paper, the basic role of information competencies in the development of cognitive skills demanded by the new artificial intelligence decision-making economy and the shifting of current jobs into new ones, and the opportunities for higher education will be discussed, reviewing current literature to identify IL potential strategies that can be deployed in higher education to enhance students’ cognitive skills.

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  1. Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz-Boca del Río, Instituto de Ingeniería/Facultad de Pedagogía DSAE, Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico

    Jesus Lau

  2. PIMSA- Cátedra Distinguida, CETYS Universidad, Mexicali, Mexico

    Jesus Lau

  3. CETYS Universidad, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

    José Luis Bonilla & Alberto Gárate

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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Lau, J., Bonilla, J.L., Gárate, A. (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Labor: Media and Information Competencies Opportunities for Higher Education. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_58

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