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U.S. Escorts Record Oil Shipments from Hormuz Amid Strikes; Rescuers Race to Reach Survivors; Death Toll Surpasses 1,200; Nepal Survivors Mourn Loved Ones Lost in the Floods; Largest U.S. School District Bans AI in Younger Classrooms; Alcaraz Sweeps Past Faria After Dropping Opening Set. Aired 9-9:45a ET
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, you're looking at traffic on the move in the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. says it escorted
a record 40 commercial ships through the waterway. It's 05:00 p.m. in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson.
This is "Connect the World". Also coming up, Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and Founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at the age of 92. Well CNN speaks to a
girl who lost 17 members of her family in Nepal's devastating floods. We're about 30 minutes from the opening bell on Wall Street.
Let's get a look at how the numbers are looking for you, and the indications certainly from the futures markets are these indices will open
stronger this morning. More on that as we get the bell on Wall Street half an hour from now. We start with what the U.S. says was a record day
escorting oil through the Strait of Hormuz since the war with Iran began.
40 commercial ships. While hitting nearly 60 Iranian targets in the area. It marks a shift in strategy for the United States as it works to chip away
at Iran's ability to leverage the strait. Well, let's take a look at how oil prices look today, and can we bring those up? We are having some
technical difficulties, so do bear with us.
Brent crude there above 96, WTI crude at just shy of 92. So those markets are higher for you today. Let's bring in Alayna Treene for more on this.
What more do we know about the scale of this operation and how it happened, Alayna?
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Becky. Look, this was a wartime high for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, particularly if you
look at what we've seen in the levels of the number of vessels that have been able to get through that crucial waterway since the beginning of this
war.
And as you mentioned as well, this is really all part of the Trump Administration's strategy to try and chip away at the leverage that Iran
still holds over the strait. Now, the U.S. military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz as
part of this operation.
And just to give you a sense of what the scope of that actually means, some context here. Prior to the launch of the war, just over six months ago,
roughly 20 million barrels a day were passing through the strait. Now they're saying 18 million barrels were allowed through the Strait of Hormuz
because of this operation.
So that gives you a sense, you know, 2 million barrels off of what we were seeing in pre-war levels passing through the strait. Now, U.S. officials
said that they used a range of air, sea, and space assets to not only continue hitting Iran's capability to attack commercial vessels in the
strait, Becky, but also, they were fending off waves of drone attacks as they conducted this risky escort mission.
They also neutralized anti-trip cruise missiles during this escort operation officials told CNN. Now, look, I will say, I think you know when
you talk to different officials, they are by no means believing that this is going to be something that they can continue to do at this scale in the
near term.
But it just shows just how much they are focused on trying to remove this as really a core piece of leverage that Iran has. Obviously, this has
really been in the immediate term what the administration has focused on the most. We've seen the president's other real priorities with this war.
Of course, the objectives he laid out at the start of this back in February before they launched the first strikes was that they want to try and find a
way to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Those negotiations and this idea of trying to get Iran back to the table to have a substantial
negotiation on a potential deal and to end the war that's kind of been put on the back burner as they try and make the strait back open to pre-war
levels.
So, all of this, I think, giving a lot of people some optimism about their ability to, you know, take on Iran on this front, but still a lot more to
come.
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ANDERSON: Perfect. Yeah, and laser focus, as you say, on the Strait of Hormuz, as the U.S. Administration tries to chip away both at the leverage
that Iran has there and at its wider economy. I want to get some sound from Scott Bessent this week, Alayna. You'll have heard this.
This was on the sidelines of the G20 summit, where we talked about the Strait of Hormuz soon being worthless. Have a listen.
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SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: We could see the Iranians are trying to use the Strait of Hormuz as a choke point. It's not a choke point
for the U.S. but it is a choke point for many other countries. And but that will be bypassed in two years. In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be
like a worthless piece of water that the oil will be going on pipelines across land.
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ANDERSON: So, he's talking about oil very specifically there. That of course doesn't apply to LNG and container shipments, which we know are held
up there as well, and that has had a massive impact on the global economy. Is it though now the White House's expectation that effectively there'll be
no need for this sort of incredibly important waterway, or is this primarily a message to the markets do you think?
TREENE: I think primarily, Becky, a message to the markets. But I will note something that this war has really revealed, not only to the United States
but to Iran itself, is how vital and crucial the Strait of Hormuz is. Obviously, we've seen the impact that the decrease in transport through the
strait has been, the effect it has had on global markets.
And it's something, of course, that I think the U.S. recognizes they need to figure out a way to solve for this, to not allow Iran to have this
leverage moving forward and beyond this war. I mean, they do not want this to be something that can be dangled and held over their heads in the years
to come, and I think that's what Bessent was trying to get to.
That's partly why, as well, you're really seeing them zero in on the strategy to isolate Iran economically from the rest of the world. They
believe that, that is going to help them regain control over the strait, whether it also be in the future, you know, in a sharing type of way with
other countries.
But it's something that they do recognize they want to have more reliance on other ways to get oil to the world, separate from the strait. I think
that's what Bessent was getting at. But of course, the idea that it could be a worthless piece of water, I don't think, is anything anyone is
seriously thinking is going to be the case down the line, Becky.
ANDERSON: Alayna, good to have you. Thank you very much, and thank you for persevering with us at the top of this show as we were experiencing some
technical difficulties. I hope those are sorted now. Thank you for joining us. All right. Well, oil prices driving inflation, inflation driving
expectations for higher interest rates.
And all of that has had an impact recently, of course, on bond markets, very specifically on U.S. Treasury yields, which have hit their highest
levels in years earlier this week. Those yields down just a little bit at present. Much of the focus now on Friday's U.S. jobs report, which could
offer more clues about the Federal Reserve's next move.
CNN Business Senior Reporter David Goldman joining us live now to discuss. And let's just pause for a moment as we consider those Treasury Yields,
which are still extremely high. Investors, of course, waiting on these jobs' numbers now. Let's break all of this down for our viewers.
And explain how what we are seeing at present isn't necessarily just potentially causing a problem for the U.S. going forward, but also for
other global economies.
DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR REPORTER: Right. I mean, this is the most important market in the world. We focus so much on stocks, and for
good reason. You know, people invest money in that, and they expect a return there. But the bond market dictates a lot more.
It gives governments the ability to borrow to do all the kinds of spending that they want to do. But on the flip side, when those yields go higher
because people aren't demanding those bonds. Well, that hurts consumers because that means they have to pay higher interest on their home loans,
like mortgages or auto loans, things like that.
So, there is a direct consumer impact every time that those yields go higher, and they have been going higher for you know several weeks now, and
then over the course of the past couple years, they're now much, much higher. But to your point, this is not just a U.S. concern.
This is an international concern. It's not just happening in the United States.
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Countries across the world are experiencing the same thing, and if the cost of borrowing for governments is going to be higher, then that means that a
larger percentage of their budgets are going to be spent on interest, paying back that return that investors want when they lend money to the
government, and that means less money for social services.
We're seeing that certainly in the United Kingdom right now, where you know every prime minister, I think there's been 42 of them in the past couple
years. You can correct me on that number, but there are -- you know they've faced the same problem, which is that the government has limited resources
to spend on all of the things that they want to do for people who live there, and that's happening in the United States as well.
ANDERSON: Yeah. Yep, unless they increase taxes, of course --
GOLDMAN: Yes. Well, who wants to do that? That's the problem. There's no political will.
ANDERSON: -- Isn't a popular idea, correct. There's this thing called Ecom 101, isn't there?
GOLDMAN: Yeah.
ANDERSON: But politicians at this point around the world not necessarily encouraged to go back to their -- to back to their school books. Good to
have you, David. Thank you very much indeed.
GOLDMAN: Thank you.
ANDERSON: All right, feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. She emerged, of course, as a leading voice of the feminist movement
back in the 1960s, and she became one of the most recognizable faces in the decades that followed. Amongst other things, she fought for women's rights
in the workplace, abortion rights, and sex education.
She died on Wednesday in New York, surrounded by her loved ones, according to a statement posted on her Instagram account. Well, joining us now is
Katherine Turk, a Professor at the University of North Carolina who specializes in women and gender studies.
And it is, you know, it's a day to take a moment, take a minute, just to consider Gloria Steinem's incredible life and her legacy, your thoughts?
KATHERINE TURK, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNC-CHAPEL HILL: Absolutely, Becky. It's I think it's the perfect time to reflect back on how much has
changed in American life, but also around the world with respect to women and gender, but also how much change we still need to make.
I mean, she was such an inspiration to generation after generation of young people, connecting so many different social justice movements, maintaining
her relevance, and bringing forward the ideals that she fought for since her girlhood and teenagerhood in the 1950s in Ohio,
ANDERSON: She faced criticism and controversy throughout her career. How did she respond to her critics?
TURK: Well, certainly, she was criticized when she stepped onto the scene in the 1960s as a reporter and writer who exposed many of the patriarchal
ideals that continued to keep women exploited and underpaid and undervalued. She faced criticism as an appealing, attractive, smart, witty
woman in public for many in society who would have preferred that she choose a more conventional life.
She faced criticism into the 1990s and 2000s when she defended Former President Bill Clinton and his relationship with his then intern Monica
Lewinsky. I would say she was quite reflective. She was very tough. She lived her own life on her own terms and didn't apologize for any of the
choices that she made.
But she also, in later life, reflected, for example, on that essay that she wrote about President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, reflecting more recently
that perhaps she would write that piece differently today upon further reflection.
ANDERSON: Yeah.
TURK: So, you know, one aspect of being in the public eye for so long is that you know you can continue to evolve and change, and I really admire
how she owned up to some of the perspectives that she expressed earlier in her life that perhaps she didn't stand by later on.
ANDERSON: I think most of us have read her what was it sort of early 1980s. I want to say 82, 83 book outrageous -- outrageous acts and everyday
rebellions, and she talked about women never again going to be sort of mindless coffee makers in politics, or and this was me sort of thinking
about being a young journalist at the time, or unconfident reporters who fail to see our own half of the world.
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Just sort of personally for you. I mean, you've clearly carved yourself a career in a world which, basically, back in the 1960s, wouldn't necessarily
have existed at a university like the one that you are at present. So, as you know, as a young woman carving your own path out.
How does somebody like Gloria Steinem make an impact on you, or did she make an impact on you?
TURK: Absolutely, she's so inspirational. Speaking truth to power, speaking out, writing her truth, writing about her own experiences, including her
own illegal abortion in the late 1950s, and you know I think I teach a lot about women's history, and I take such special care to make sure that the -
- my students.
Many of whom are women, understand what it was like, if not for their mothers, then for their grandmothers and all the women in their family
before that to inspire them about how much change has happened and how much change still needs to happen and just what is possible.
But also, to remind them or to let them know that if things have gotten better, it's not because that just happened or because those folks in power
just decided to be a little bit more generous. It's because courageous souls like Gloria Steinem and other women like her stepped forward and
dared to live lives on their own terms and challenge the status quo and start new publications like Ms. Magazine, the first ever woman-founded and
woman-led periodical, at least in the United States.
And so, I think it's so important for my generation and those -- all those generations to follow to understand that while women like Gloria Steinem
were incredible icons and incredible figures. They were also ordinary people who saw problems around them in their own lives and had their own
formative experiences and took radical steps to change them and to make a better world. And I'm so grateful to her that she did.
ANDERSON: Thank you. And can I just ask you? You said when you're talking to your students, you said many of whom are women. What is the split as far
as students are concerned? Who'll take a course like that which you are teaching? I'm just out of interest.
TURK: Just out of interest. Well, you know, I never assign gender to students who don't volunteer that to me. But I would say, in general, if
I'm teaching a course with a title like women in American history, my students are overwhelmingly women identify.
They're overwhelmingly women, but there are always some self-identified men there too. And you know, women's history is for everyone. And I think those
who don't identify as women perhaps need it even more.
ANDERSON: Yeah. Fascinating. It's good to have you. Katherine, Thank you very much indeed.
TURK: Thank you so much --
ANDERSON: Well, still to come, search continues across Nepal and China as families grieve loved ones lost in the devastating floods and hold on to
hope for those still missing.
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ANDERSON: Well rescuers are racing against time to reach survivors along the China-Nepal border. Many communities remain cut off by the floods as
rescue teams desperately search for anyone who may still be alive, and with each passing hour, the full scale of this disaster coming into focus.
The death toll has now surpassed 1,200, and more than 4,700 people are still missing more than a week after those floods. Behind those numbers, of
course, are families who have lost their loved ones, their homes, entire communities, while others are still waiting for answers.
CNN's Will Ripley is on the ground and filed this report.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On this unfinished rooftop of a small municipal building in Bidur, Nepal, 50 men
left homeless by the flood try to sleep, but the nights are long and cold, and Subba Tamang says, full of tears and fear.
SUBBA TAMANG, LOST EIGHT FAMILY MEMBERS: This place is not also safe.
RIPLEY: So, you're afraid the floods could even come up to this roof.
TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY: How do you sleep at night? Do you -- are you able to sleep?
TAMANG: No, we could not because many people cry because of -- because they lost their family members too. So many people cry here at night,
remembering their members, and every day goes like that.
RIPLEY: You got the helicopters always flying over.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Every day the choppers fly out searching for survivors. Every night they fly back, and those he lost are still gone.
TAMANG: And I lost my eight family members, yeah.
RIPLEY: You lost eight family members.
TAMANG: Yeah, I lost my uncle, aunt, and my siblings.
RIPLEY: I'm so sorry.
TAMANG: This one also.
RIPLEY: This is your brother.
TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY: How old is he?
TAMANG: He is two years old.
RIPLEY: What's his name?
TAMANG: His name is Syr Anjana (ph).
RIPLEY: How old is Anjana (ph)?
TAMANG: She is two years old. Her name is Dolma Tamang (ph).
RIPLEY: So, she's your aunt.
TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Camera phone pictures are precious commodities for Subba and his cousin Kopila Tamang. They have little else left.
KOPILA TAMANG, LOST 17 FAMILY MEMBERS: When he was born, I click this photo.
RIPLEY: You took this one?
K. TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY: How old?
K. TAMANG: One month. She is first daughter, second daughter. My mom is third one. This also lost. My mom and my two siblings also, two cousins,
aunty and her daughter.
RIPLEY: Both were lost?
K. TAMANG: Yeah, both lost. This is my sister. She also lost. This is my grandma.
RIPLEY: She was also lost.
K. TAMANG: Yeah, she also lost. She's so innocent. She used to love me so much.
RIPLEY: Everyone in this picture is gone?
K. TAMANG: Yeah. These all are gone. They are like my children. They are -- when I came home, they always come back with me and call me phuphu (ph).
So, I miss them.
RIPLEY: 17 family members.
K. TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY: That's really hard to even wrap your head around.
K. TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY (voice-over): 2015 earthquake destroyed her old family home. Back then, everyone survived. This time, the wall of water consumed her family's
new home in Russobat, leaving nothing and no one behind.
RIPLEY: So, you were trying to call your dad, your mom, nobody.
K. TAMANG: Yeah. My relatives. There is no answer.
RIPLEY: Because all of them were gone.
K. TAMANG: Yeah.
RIPLEY: What do you -- what's keeping you strong?
K. TAMANG: I have one small brother. I have to take care of him. Now I'm the mother for him, so I have to be strong. When I cry, he will also cry.
RIPLEY: Hello.
K. TAMANG: He is my brother.
RIPLEY: What's your name?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Goggin Tamang (ph).
RIPLEY: Goggin Tamang (ph). Nice to meet you.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Time passes slowly here. Most people are still in a state of shock, with only the clothes on their backs. About 100 women and
children sleep in this yoga center. They tell me every time there's a rumor of another flood, everyone runs up this nearby hill and hides.
The rumors often come late at night, they say. There are no showers, and everyone shares a bathroom. They get their drinking water from a truck, or
fill their bottles at nearby waterfalls.
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Children like Rojina and Rossita Bhatta (ph) can't go to school because it was also destroyed.
RIPLEY: So, what happened when you're on the bus going to school?
ROJINA BHATTA, FLOOD SURVIVOR: We could see the water chasing us from our window, she says.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Everyone started crying and shouting. The driver drove very fast and took us to a safer place. I was extremely scared. We thought
the flood would not be this big, but when we saw how huge it was, we were terrified. Her dad, Virginia Bhatta (ph), says the bus driver saved his
children's lives.
He saw dozens of houses being washed away, along with a bridge and a road. The raging water dragged this bus hundreds of feet.
RIPLEY: Did you ever think you'd see a flood like this?
RIPLEY (voice-over): No, I've never seen this type of flood, he says. Not just me, but my father and grandfather also never witnessed such a
devastating flood in their lifetimes. I think a large number of school children may have died, since some of their parents may also have died.
There's no one to ask about their whereabouts.
RIPLEY: You really got to watch your step. This is quick sand, probably about 20 feet deep. Some of these guys out here said they've stepped in it,
and it went right up to their neck. That makes recovering bodies very difficult and dangerous.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Nobody knows how many bodies are buried beneath, or when or where it'll be safe to rebuild all the homes, all the lives swept
away. Will Ripley, CNN, Bidur, Nepal.
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ANDERSON: Well, up next on "Connect the World", the start of the trading day and the business news headlines for you, including how schools around
the world are dealing with AI at the beginning of the new school year.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You are watching "Connect the World", and wherever you are watching, you are more than
welcome. These are their headlines. Two U.S. officials say the military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying 18 million barrels of oil through
the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
The officials say the U.S. also struck about 60 Iranian targets in the area as it worked to reduce Iran's leverage around the strait. Gloria Steinem,
the journalist and feminist icon who helped shape the modern women's movement, died on Wednesday. She rose to prominence in the 1960s, becoming
one of the movement's most recognizable and influential voices.
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She was 92. We're watching the opening bell on Wall Street for you today. About to ring that bell Sempra. Let's just pause for a moment and give them
the honors. Futures had been indicating a better start of the trading day this Thursday. So, unless anything's changed in the last couple of minutes,
we should expect the DOW to open about a half of 1 percent higher, and it is.
And expecting both the NASDAQ and the S&P to do the same. Well, it is back to school season around parts of the world, and the conversation around AI
use in the classroom is reaching a fever pitch. In New York, we've got some real controversy. At the center of that conversation is the city, after
banning generative AI in public schools until the eighth grade.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the policy Wednesday, saying it is the country's quote, most expansive limit on AI in schools. Well, CNN's Tech
Reporter Clare Duffy has been closely following the efforts to regulate AI, and she joins us now from New York. And we're not just seeing this in New
York City.
Several places like Norway, Los Angeles have imposed similar bans or restrictions on AI. And we're talking here about the use of an AI tool, a
chat bot, for example mostly. It's quite different from the use or the deployment of AI, sort of across the, you know, the sort of the widest
space.
At the same time tech companies building AI tools for education of course. So why are some schools so determined or school districts so determined to
step away?
CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: Have seen the AI companies invest heavily not only in rolling out tools for learning and education, but also
investing in things like teacher training, so that teachers know how to use this technology as they seek to get it into students' hands.
But we have seen growing concerns from parents and educators that this AI technology could reduce students' critical thinking abilities, could
distract them from their human relationships with other students and with teachers, and that is really what's behind this move by New York City.
This is going to be a one-year moratorium on generative AI use in the classroom for 2K through eighth graders. High school students will have
limited access to a certain set of AI tools. And they will also receive AI critical thinking courses that will teach them about the benefits, but also
the downsides and the risks of this technology.
Companion chat bots, which, as you know, Becky, have raised a number of safety concerns for young people, will be banned for all grades. So, I
think really an effort here to think critically about what students at what age need to have access to this technology?
ANDERSON: It's good to have you. Thank you. While New York schools are determined to keep AI tools at least away from young kids. Here in the UAE,
the government really is taking a very different tack, an AI curriculum being launched for students from kindergarten through to high school.
I spoke to the UAE Education Minister Sarah Al Amiri about the vision behind AI as sort of a core part of the curriculum here in the UAE, and
what these AI classes will look like.
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SARAH AL AMIRI, EDUCATION MINISTER OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: When we initially looked at this, we looked at it from the same perspective as
social media. Students were using AI tools. Students were using it for learning. Students were also using it to do their assessments and do their
projects and programs.
The question that came to mind is, are they using it in the correct manner? Do they understand the bias, the biases that exist inherently into AI
systems? Are they able to prompt it appropriately? Are they able to put in the right ethical context towards utilizing it?
And as that evolved, it came spot on that today, immediately, we need to deploy an entire curriculum where students learn what AI is, how to use it,
how it's trained, the biases that exist within it, what is the ethical use to use it in their education process, what tools to use, and how.
ANDERSON: Yeah.
AMIRI: Even before middle school. There are tools out there that you might be exposed to. This is how you can use them. And what's interesting is one
of the schools wrote their own books, so students wrote a book. They used AI tools to design the video. They used AI for the voiceover, and they
produce their own books on a digital tablet.
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So that's mechanisms where we're able to enhance learning, allow them to safely use within a safe environment, AI tools, and then move forward.
ANDERSON: And you say they have done this because, of course, there was a sort of soft launch. You've tested this out across over 200,000 students.
AMIRI: Yes.
ANDERSON: I understand it in the school year last year. Now, fully available, not just here in the UAE, but you're offering this as a
curriculum elsewhere in the world, correct?
AMIRI: Yes. The framework now is publicly available on a website that anybody can access. The framework is agnostic to countries, so you can take
the context of the outcomes that are within the framework and design your curriculum around it. And what I really like about this is we've added a
feature where even if you test it and deploy it, and there is mechanism to enhance it, you can submit it in, and we can enhance it in the next
iteration of the framework.
ANDERSON: There is, of course, this I'm sure huge concern from parents here and around the world, including myself, about some of the risks of AI.
Talked about some of those, you know, plagiarism, misinformation, deep fakes. So, let's just talk a little bit more about how this curriculum is
preparing kids to tackle those issues.
AMIRI: We are revamping our education system from the ground up, so that's the first trigger. And what it really looks like is the following,
introducing devices at an appropriate age, yet still teaching them about AI literacy that they're exposed to in their daily life.
Doubling down on choristic skills, and that's language, literacy skills, and numeracy skills, and adding extensively problem solving, so that the
ability to fail and resilience gets built intrinsically into the education system.
ANDERSON: So, how are you measuring the outcomes?
AMIRI: Two different mechanisms, one, the projects of the students, two, we've done surveys on the students themselves, and also focus groups on the
teachers. The interesting results, and you know that the UAE has been investing quite extensively in AI across several sectors.
55 percent of the students that went through this program started thinking about careers in AI, and it opened up to them a realm by which they're able
to create implication and impact. Teachers were grateful that the ethical use of AI, especially in teaching and learning and doing your assessments,
has been introduced to students.
And that conversation started within the classroom. The class structure, the way I love that it's actually structured starts with theory, then goes
into actual implementation, then reflection, and that's the important part where we're able to raise a lot of these ethical considerations of what is
right and wrong in using results that come from AI.
ANDERSON: Can we just finally talk about this sort of broader AI and advanced tech sort of vision and strategy here in the UAE, it is very
ambitious. You previously served as Minister for Advanced Tech. Of course, you help lead the UAE's Mars mission. What are your takeaways from how --
what you're implementing in the curriculum feeds into the sort of broader ambition here?
And how other countries might approach both innovation and regulation?
AMIRI: So, the first is not being not shying away from it. I think the first discussion that came when ChatGPT was accessible to everyone was, oh,
let's block this, and let's stop people accessing it within the confines of schools. We're not taking this approach because we're deploying it across
government.
We're deploying it across private sector. We are -- we have a lot of investments and a lot of work going into developing it. And investing quite
extensively into AI and advanced technologies to become the fabric of the UAE's future sectors that are being heavily invested in.
What those results into is reflecting on what our education system needs to do. Critical thinking and approaching education differently have become now
at the top of our priority. Building resilience into students and more importantly, teaching them the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn,
which is very important in a very dynamic economy as they continue to grow became fundamental.
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ANDERSON: Sarah Al Amiri speaking to me here in Abu Dhabi. Right, up next in sports, Carlos Alcaraz was made to work, but looking back at his best.
More on that after this.
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ANDERSON: Right. Well, we are nearing the end of the first week of the U.S. Open tennis major. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz still recovering from
what was this wrist injury that he's got, but looking pretty strong on Wednesday. It has to be said. Patrick Snell joining us now.
Pat, what did you make of his performance?
PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah, hi Becky. I was impressed overall. You got to just bear in mind that this is a player, this young player from
Spain who hasn't played ahead of this this tournament, Becky, since April. He missed the French Open in Paris.
ANDERSON: Yeah.
SNELL: He missed Wimbledon as he wisely took his time coming back from that wrist injury. He's not just totally, totally expected this. He's not at
those levels yet that you would expect from him, but he won't mind that one little bit because he's through to the third round.
It was a really good test for him last night in the Big Apple against the Portuguese player Jaime Faria, he dropped the first set. I was watching,
and I'm thinking, OK, how are you going to respond? How are you going to respond? And remember, it wasn't until the final last year when he won this
tournament, Becky, that he dropped a set for the first time.
It was a great test, and he hit back in style, and he gave a very polished performance in the end, and he's looking in the groove there. And I think
he's going to have a deep run at this year's U.S. Open. Who knows? May even win it again. Back to you.
ANDERSON: Good for you. All right. Well, we'll not going to hold you to that, but we'll enjoy watching this second week. That's "World Sport" with
Pat after this break, I'm back with more "Connect the World" in 15 minutes.
SNELL: Thank you.
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