China urged to prepare students for challenges of AI and ageing population

“China and other countries in the world are still using past knowledge to teach current students to solve future problems. Cultivating students’ creativity to deal with an uncertain future is the core challenge facing the current education system now,” Gao said in an interview published by Shanghai-based news site The Paper on Tuesday. Gao, a chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said his university encouraged cooperation between departments to encourage interdisciplinary projects while strengthening offerings in core general courses such as AI and logic.

He said the university would carry out AI-enabled R&D on low-altitude aircraft, intelligent deep-sea exploration, mining, transport equipment, and intelligent medical diagnosis and treatment..