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posted by martyb on Thursday May 09 2019, @11:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the Get-creative! dept.

Phys.org:

Repetitive skills like pattern recognition, information retrieval, optimization and planning are most vulnerable to automation. On the other hand, social and cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable.

The most resilient competencies (those least likely to be displaced by AI) included critical thinking, teamwork, interpersonal skills, leadership and entrepreneurship.

Yuval Harari, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, described the rise of AI as a "cascade of ever-bigger disruptions" in higher education rather than a single event that settles into a new equilibrium. The unknown paths taken by AI will make it increasingly difficult to know what to teach students.

Perhaps we can all be employed as therapists, counseling each other about our feelings of irrelevance?


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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday May 11 2019, @05:07AM (1 child)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday May 11 2019, @05:07AM (#842224) Homepage

    Of course they won't be affected; there are no gender studies jobs. Can't lose a job if you don't have one.

    Seriously though:

    1. Gender studies has no practical applications.
    2. If you need a college course for interpersonal skills, God help you. That's God with a capital G, and I'm not even (mono)theistic.
    3. Using the premise that you want a job and that some kind of universal basic income won't be implemented, gender studies is not the right choice now, and it won't be the right choice after a supposed AI singularity.

    > Imagine a world where anything a typical 'worker' could do is automated. It's the interpersonal skills that will reign supreme here.

    Er, how exactly? Are we all going to have jobs being paid as professional socializers? Professional political correctioners?

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  • (Score: 2) by pipedwho on Saturday May 11 2019, @10:17AM

    by pipedwho (2032) on Saturday May 11 2019, @10:17AM (#842263)

    I have no idea exactly what they teach/learn in a gender studies course. But, I do know many people in the marketing, HR, sale, purchasing, and administration departments in big companies that have gone through those sorts of the courses. They were hired because they went to university and had some sort of arts degree (in anything, HR doesn't seem to care anymore what).

    For these people, completing gender studies, media studies, literature, or philosophy are probably far more useful than if they'd done a bit of mathematics, physics or chemistry on the side. Obviously the opposite is probably true if they plan to have some sort of STEM career. But, when you look at the makeup of most of big companies, the engineers are a small fraction of the workforce compared to the non-'technical' employees.

    That's not to say that every student studying these courses will use them in their line of work, but that is true of many higher learning subjects. Even many engineers/scientists never use all the knowledge/skills they've studied at university.