[The video version of my interview on the Hannah Frankman Podcast is above. Here are the audio versions on Apple Podcast and on Spotify.]
In the age of AI, traditional education is OUT, and self-taught AI skills are IN…
Within a year or two, the office job market will look radically different than it ever has, as AI washes over most workplaces.
How should young people change their plans for education as this AI tsunami crashes over the workplace?
In my interview with Hannah Frankman–a rebel maven of alternative education–I make a controversial claim:
In the age of AI, going to college will be a massive financial and career harm for most students, particularly those taking on significant debt.
(The exception is students who want to go into a field like law, which requires an academic credential and/or licensure, such as law, engineering, or medicine–though these fields are being upended by AI as well.)
Why?
Colleges have already demonstrated that they intend to keep young people away from AI either partially or fully, saying that using AI tools is “cheating.” Overpaid college deans correctly see AI as a threat to their business model.
(And yes, colleges are for all intents and purposes businesses–and ruthless ones at that–despite their fig leaf of non-profit status.)
Point blank: any young adult who has been kept away by their teachers and professors from learning about AI tools urgently, will be irrelevant to the job market next year, let alone in four years.
Students simply do not go to college (and take out large student loans) to become economically irrelevant, and they should not. So education needs to be rethought from the ground up as AI dominates every area of our economy.