00:00Academic Sharifa Munira Alatas disagrees with the Singaporean associate professor's suggestion
00:06that degrees in humanities and social sciences will become obsolete.
00:11She said the social sciences and humanities, including literature, music, history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology,
00:19are indispensable as education for life, not education for livelihood.
00:24Munira said neglecting and manipulating history has already caused problems in Malaysia,
00:29especially in a multicultural and multi-religious society.
00:33On Sunday, Khairuddin Aljunaid of the National University of Singapore
00:38had argued that students should develop indispensable skills such as artificial intelligence
00:42because many degrees, including humanities, social sciences, engineering, and STEM, may become obsolete.
00:50Munira warned that worshipping AI encourages undergraduates to take shortcuts in essays and theses.
00:55She said it is wrong to put AI on a pedestal while dismissing human civilization and history,
01:02calling this binary thinking influenced by the global north.
01:06Munira added that digital colonialism is real,
01:09saying Malaysians must be more discerning about AI's hidden social and environmental costs.
01:14Down in Georgia, Rizzo, FMT.
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