Future-Proofing Your Career: How to Choose College Skills AI Can’t Replace
Crafting a career immune to the rise of AI
With ChatGPT and other bots powered by artificial intelligence capturing the public imagination with their spectacular ability to parse user queries, gather relevant information online, and put it together in very convincing language, public discourse has raged over the potential of this technology to render humans obsolete in many different kinds of job roles.
A number of popular websites, Bankrate and CNET among them, have already admitted to using AI-powered bots to write their articles for them. On these websites, AI is already displacing human writers. If you’re in the workforce right now, you may wonder whether you could have made different kinds of choices in college to be better positioned to fight the threat posed by AI.
If you’re young, however, and contemplating college, you could do something now about your future marketability. You could aim to gain skills that truly make use of areas of human strength (and AI weakness). You want skillsets that are unlikely to be taken over by artificial intelligence in the future. Classes in the humanities and the sciences are likely to equip you well. What kind of classes, exactly, should you take in college to help you develop uniquely human…
