Wendy Carlin

I am worried about this.

The evidence that people are referring to relates, for example, to the drop in the hiring of juniors in firms that are adopting AI.

And we've got to really think about, you know, why did economics majors get a premium in the

So this was top of mind for the dean of the business school at Hong Kong University.

They're very worried about the future of their econ and business majors through their conversations with employers in the city.

And another colleague in Hong Kong said that his contacts in consultancy and finance are now hiring philosophy and history majors rather than econ or business majors.

Anyone who's done an economics degree will remember that they spend a lot of time doing problem sets.

These are very well specified or structured cognitive tasks.

So we have to really rethink our classrooms and get those problem set sessions out of the way.

They're going to learn how to do that much better individually working with AI as a tutor than they are in a classroom with, you know, 20 other people.

Yes, I think that that's what we should be aiming for.

And it's part of our job to help students to get the AI to work for them, but not to take away the opportunities that they have to learn the benefits of the hard work that has to be put in, which is going to make you useful.

And also, it's going to bring you fulfillment in a way that just getting the answer from the AI can't.