The Next Gifted Program Won't Be Math & Science
It Will Be the AI Thinking Leaders Program
1985.
Taiwan's most gifted students entered the math and science gifted programs.
2005.
The most talented students began learning programming.
2025.
The world's top universities started teaching artificial intelligence.
And 2035?
In the next decade, we may witness the emergence of an entirely new type of talent.
They may not be the best test-takers.
Not necessarily the best at memorizing.
Not even necessarily the best coders.
But they will be the people who understand how to think with AI best.
The Biggest Misconception of the AI Era: Mistaking a Tool for a Skill
Over the past two years.
Many parents have started having their children learn AI.
Learn ChatGPT.
Learn image generation.
Learn AI tools.
All of that is well and good.
But we must recognize one thing.
AI itself is not a skill.
It is only a tool.
Just as a calculator is not mathematical ability.
A search engine is not knowledge.
A car is not driving skill.
What truly matters.
Is always the person using the tool.
The most scarce talent in the future world.
Will not be the person most skilled at using AI.
But the person who best understands how to use AI to solve problems.
Why Will Math Education Become the Core of AI Education?
Many people believe AI education and math education are two different things.
In reality.
They are gradually converging.
Because the essence of AI.
Is a large-scale problem-solving system.
And mathematics.
Is the most mature problem-solving training in human history.
When a student faces a math problem.
They must complete five steps.
Understand the problem.
Analyze the conditions.
Build a model.
Verify the result.
Correct the errors.
These five steps.
Are also precisely the five steps for collaborating with AI in the future.
Therefore the truly excellent AI user.
Is often not the person who knows Prompt Engineering best.
But the person who understands mathematical thinking best.
Because they know how to break down a problem.
How to define a goal.
How to verify an answer.
How to identify an error.
And all of these abilities.
Come from long-term mathematics training.
The Future Gap Between Talents Will Come from Problem-Definition Ability
OpenAI founder Sam Altman once said:
The greatest competitive advantage in the future world is knowing what to do.
Not knowing how to do it.
Because the cost of "how" is falling rapidly.
AI is helping everyone complete execution work.
But AI cannot decide:
Which problems are worth solving?
Which directions are worth pursuing?
Which goals truly matter?
Those decisions.
Still require human beings.
Therefore the most important ability of future talent.
Will shift from knowledge competition to cognitive competition.
From information competition to insight competition.
From memory competition to thinking competition.
ChenLi Mathematics Is Thinking About the Next 40 Years
For the past 40 years.
ChenLi Mathematics has helped students gain admission to NTU, NTHU, NYCU, and medical schools.
In the next 40 years.
The world will face new challenges.
AI engineers.
AI entrepreneurs.
Robotics designers.
Quantum computing talent.
Digital governance professionals.
And even many new professions that do not exist today.
These talents will need.
More than just mathematical ability.
They will need cross-disciplinary integration.
Problem-solving capability.
Technology understanding.
And leadership.
Therefore education must also be upgraded.
From reinforcing knowledge.
To cultivating future leaders.
Coming Soon: ChenLi AI Leadership Program
Starting in 2027.
ChenLi Mathematics will launch a bold new educational initiative:
AI Leadership Program
AI Leaders Class
This is not a traditional programming class.
Nor simply an AI tools course.
But a program to cultivate the problem-solvers of the future.
The curriculum will integrate:
AI Thinking Skills
- How to collaborate with AI
- Prompt Engineering
- Agent mindset training
- AI decision analysis
Mathematical Thinking
- Problem decomposition
- Model construction
- Logical reasoning
- Data analysis
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Design thinking
- Business models
- Technology product design
- Future industry exploration
Leadership Training
- Public speaking
- Teamwork
- Project management
- Global perspective
What We Hope to Cultivate Is Not AI Users — But Leaders of the AI Era
In the next ten years.
Every child will have an AI assistant.
Just as everyone has a smartphone today.
When everyone possesses the same tools.
What will truly set people apart.
Will no longer be the tools themselves.
But thinking ability.
Therefore what the AI Leaders Class truly cultivates.
Is not technique.
But mindset.
Not answers.
But questions.
Not knowledge.
But the capacity to create knowledge.
The purpose of education has never been to chase the future.
But to create it.
Forty years ago.
ChenLi Mathematics helped a generation master mathematics.
Forty years later.
We hope to help the next generation master artificial intelligence.
And in the AI era.
Become people who can think, create, and lead.
Because the most precious talent of the future.
Will not be the person who can use AI the best.
But the person who best understands how to use AI to change the world.
