The Great Guessing Game: Why Students are Switching Majors to ‘AI-Proof’ Careers That Don’t Exist Yet

As AI looms over the job market, college students are fleeing high-tech majors for “safe” subjects—but experts warn there is no road map for what comes next.

BY KIT EATON @KITEATON

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Thanks to AI, it’s an interesting time to be in the workplace. The revolutionary tech is being quickly and controversially embraced even as critics worry AI is threatening human jobs in certain business sectors like finance or software coding. This concern about job market changes is so serious that savvy college students are reportedly switching majors to more “AI-proof” subjects. It sounds like a smart trick… until you remember that “interesting times” is a curse describing an era of chaotic upsets. There’s no road map for these students, no right answers, and today’s young adults are deeply worried their hard-earned skills will become obsolete........

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