crisis. Robot-Proof Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence was published and released in 2017 by MIT Press. The book appeared over a year after Aoun wrote a commentary for the Chronicle of Higher Education that shares the first part of the book's title. In Robot-Proof, Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot. A "robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with memorizing facts. Rather, it fosters a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society—a scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for cancer. In his book, Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics, which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside human professionals. He argues for the need for better and continuous education to keep up with changing technology, saying, "Beyond simply conferring degrees, the foundational purpose of colleges and universities must be to educate — and that means equipping people of all ages, at all stages of their careers, to build successful and fulfilling lives." Honors and awards Chevalier de La Légion d’honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor): French Government, 2018 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010 Doctor of Humane Letters: Anatolia College, 2009 Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa: Hebrew Union College, 2007 Chevalier de L'ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms): French Government, 2006 Endowed Chair, Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences MIT Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2011 USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997 USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (with A. Li), 1993 USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988 See also Generative linguistics David Pesetsky Hagit Borer Richard S. Kayne Howard Lasnik References External links Higher education for the AI age: Let’s think about it before the machines do it for us The Washington Post 10.27.16 Doubling