Natasha Singer

And we're seeing Microsoft and Google and OpenAI and others, you know, promote their chatbots, Google, Gemini, OpenAI, ChatGPT, EDU, Microsoft Copilot for schools, for teachers, for students.

And the difference between the push for coding and the push for AI is, like, computer science was an established discipline.

It's decades old.

We know how to teach it.

And also, it has value.

Like, it's just an important thing to study computer science to understand the world around you since we're so...

tech-infused in everything we do.

We want kids to know how the internet works or how their cell phone works or how algorithms show us things and can manipulate us.

The difference with the push for AI is that computer science was a discrete subject, whereas the tech industry is pushing to get AI into every subject in every classroom.

I've talked to college students who are thinking, well, I like to build things.

And because of these coding agents, I probably can't build the kind of things myself anymore I want.

So maybe I'm going to go into architecture.

But I think you're asking a really profound question, which is, how is the nature of work changing in all fields?

And how does that affect what it means to be human?

Because at least in the United States, there are many people whose identities are wrapped up in their jobs.

And I think we're

in the beginning of a profound shift about what work is and how AI tools will affect it and what kinds of jobs are going to go away.

Like when I talked to high school students, they were like, well, my whole life I wanted to go into computer generated graphic, you know, animation, making animated films.

And now AI can do that.

And so maybe I'm going to be a social worker because my dream job is not going to exist in a few years.