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In defense of the liberal arts in the age of AI
- 2. 25% OF AMERICAN jobs are at risk of being replaced with AI Source: Brookings Institution.
- 3. COULD A MACHINE DO YOUR JOB? Industry Risk of Automation Office and administrative support 60% Transportation and material moving 55% Construction and extraction 50% Healthcare practitioners 33% Arts/design/entertainment/sports and media 20% Education/training and library 18%
- 7. 65% OF CHILDREN ENTERING PRIMARY SCHOOL NOW WILL HAVE JOBS THAT DO NOT CURRENTLY EXIST
- 8. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a real deep thinker and stuff. —Billy Ray Cyrus “
- 10. MOST VALUABLE JOB SKILLS ● Creativity ● Critical thinking ● Emotional intelligence ● Judgment and decision making ● Ability to analyze data ● Learnability ● Agility ● Curiosity
- 11. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. —Pablo Picasso “
- 12. WHEN YOU WANT NORMAL HUMAN CONVERSATIONS BUT YOU CAN’T STOP GENERATING COUNTEREXAMPLES
- 13. READING IS THE SOLE MEANS BY WHICH WE SLIP, INVOLUNTARILY, OFTEN HELPLESSLY, INTO ANOTHER’S SKIN. —author Joyce Carol Oates “
- 14. WHOSOEVER DESIRES CONSTANT SUCCESS MUST CHANGE HIS CONDUCT WITH THE TIMES. —Niccolo Machiavelli “
- 18. ONCE WE BELIEVE IN OURSELVES, WE CAN RISK CURIOSITY, WONDER, SPONTANEOUS DELIGHT, OR ANY EXPERIENCE THAT REVEALS THE HUMAN SPIRIT. —e. e. cummings “
Editor's Notes
- We’ve been worried for a while that the robots were going to come for us. That they would rise up, perhaps even wiping humanity out of existence completely. We began to fear attacks from our machines practically from the day we started building them. Reality has proven far … quieter.
- It turns out, they don’t want to kill us. Apparently, they just want to destroy our jobs. A quarter of American jobs are considered at risk of being eliminated by AI. in the next two decades.
- Is your job going to be one of them? Maybe. Not all fields are at equal risk. The more dirty, dangerous or repetitive a job is, the more likely it is to disappear soon.
- In fact, they’re already coming for what many people have long thought of as “the good jobs." Trucking. Accounting. Radiology. Even the best-paid doctors won't be immune from these shocks.
- These were supposed to be the practical trades and professions. The serious, responsible degrees and certifications to pursue. That's what Mike Rowe keeps saying, right? Not like those … well, you know.
- Those frivolous liberal arts majors were supposed to wind up behind the counter at Starbucks their whole life. Cursed to never use their fancy expensive degrees in their day to day work. Yeah well, joke’s on you -- they have fabulous health insurance and free coffee at work.
- So here we are. The "practical" careers are vanishing, and the half-life of our technical skills at work has now shrunk to 5 years. My daughters are likely to have jobs that don't even exist now.
- The people who will thrive in the 4th industrial revolution are those with what we call transferable skills and an eagerness to constantly learn new things. The very skills you acquire by studying the liberal arts. How else to explain the enduring career of this man?
- As our machines grow more powerful, the humans overseeing them are going to need better judgment than we've ever had before. Without it, there is a strong chance we'll destroy ourselves and the planet.
- This isn’t some far-out future. The World Economic Forum asked employers what skills they valued most. The I/O psychs at Aon developed a similar list in their own research Naturally, they used AI to draw those conclusions.
- Let’s start with creativity. In a world where most repetitive tasks will be performed by machines, we’ll place higher value on people who can imagine things that don’t already exist and make them real. We call those people artists.
- What about critical thinking? Our friends over in the philosophy department have got you covered! Even now, philosophy majors have the fourth-highest median earnings of any undergrad major, at $81,200 per year.
- On to emotional intelligence. This is where our literature majors go on to shine. If your job involves authentically connecting with another human being, you’re less likely to lose out to even the most clever robot.
- If you’re looking for people trained in the ways of shrewd decision making, reach out the poli sci grads. They've been studying game theory since before it was cool. Just, you know, watch your back.
- Need a charismatic data whiz om your team? Talk to the psychology and sociology grads. They know their way around SAS and how to spin those numbers into a compelling narrative.
- For learnability, stop by the foreign language department. The discipline of thinking and communicating in another language opens minds and hearts. Maintaining fluency requires a commitment to lifelong learning that can keep you ahead of the algorithms.
- As the pace of change accelerates, agility will become an even more valuable trait. Remember the "theater kids"? They are absolute masters at it. We're going to need all the "Yes and ..." we can get in this economy.
- All of the liberal arts cultivate curiosity, but perhaps none as much as anthropology. It trains you to set aside your most fundamental assumptions about humanity and fully embrace diverse perspectives. In other words, the secret to innovation.
- I have a confession to make. I don’t have a liberal arts degree. My BS is in agronomy. I minored in religious studies, which gifted me with a broad perspective on humanity that has definitely outlived the technical knowledge I acquired in school.
- Because y’all. They definitely don’t any use for me out in those fields anymore.