“Fighting Pride” – PH Edu Sec Sonny Angara, We Need Not Worry About Artificial Intelligence (AI) As We Could Teach From Grade School To Grad School Human/e Intelligences (HI)!

In Forbes, Bernard Marr lists “The 15 Biggest Risks Of Artificial Intelligence” (02 June 2023, forbes.com). Forget the list; hereby, we Filipinos challenge the “Fighting Pride” at DepEd! (image from spin.ph). Sonny Angara, you survived coronavirus – with you as Sec Edu, we will triumph despite AI!

Sir Sonny, we cannot stop the conquest of the universe of intellectual convenience by Artificial Intelligence (AI), but we can start the victory of the universe of intellectual superiority – by teaching from Grade School to Grad School multiple intelligences (MI), a list of 9 smarts intellectualized by Harvard professor Howard Gardner, to which I have added a 10^th and now call the list “Human/e Intelligences” (HI).

In education, millions of Filipinos would rejoice if they discover that HI is within everyone’s richness of mind while AI remains within the reach of those who care only how to get moolah quick!

Sir Sonny – Teach from Grade School to Grad School (and out of school) a million times better and more joyfully? With HI, we can do it!

Sec Sonny, DepEd cannot ignore this news: “Filipino Workers Seen Most At Risk Of AI Takeover In Asean” (Ian Nicolas P Cigaral Inquirer.Net, business.inquirer.net):

Filipino workers are more at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) compared to their peers in the region unless the Philippines can shift to more knowledge-based services that mostly require human intelligence and skills, Amro (Asia) said. [AMRO is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO Asia)].

In short, AI is endangering the prospective economic benefits of our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). You cannot simply ignore this because your DepEd has this Vision:

We dream of Filipinos who passionately love their country and whose values and competencies enable them to realize their full potential and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.  As a learner-centered public institution, the Department of Education continuously improves itself to better serve its stakeholders.

And thus, Sec Sonny, it is now with your leadership that DepEd enables us Filipinos to “realize our full potential” so that we can all “contribute meaningfully to building the nation” stronger!

The bad news is ASEAN, not simply Philippine. AMRO says further:

“Given the relatively large size of the business process outsourcing service industry in the economy, the Philippines could face a greater risk of worker displacement – primarily those engaged in more routine work – as AI gradually reshapes ICT operations, unless it can move into more knowledge-based services.

Sec Sonny, I end this article with a quote from your DepEd website:

The Department of Education (DepEd) formulates, implements, and coordinates policies, plans, programs and projects in the areas of formal and non-formal basic education. It supervises all elementary and secondary education institutions, including alternative learning systems, both public and private…

Sec Sonny, our whole economic system is now challenged by AI –which challenges our whole educational system to rise above it. We Filipinos can defeat this virtual demon!@517