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Dean at top liberal arts university says AI could make Gen Z less skilled, not more
“You literally don’t need to know anything to use the technology, at least to use it badly.”
The onset of AI has caused tech giants to clamber over one another to declare a new age of high-skilled worker productivity, with some even suggesting English majors could spearhead that revolution. But a dean at Ireland’s top university, and one of the world’s best liberal arts schools, isn’t convinced his students are getting much out of the technology and worries it could cripple their ability to land a job when they graduate. Speaking to Fortune in December, IBM Consulting’s partner in generative AI, Matt Candy, said graduates with a background in the liberal arts could be a hot commodity in the tech labor market.
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