Universities are rapidly expanding A.I. programs as students seek skills that can withstand an increasingly automated future. Photo by: Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

When Chris Callison-Burch first started teaching an A.I. course at the University of Pennsylvania in2018, his inaugural class had about 100 students. Seven years later, enrollment has swelled to roughly 400—excluding another 250 students attending remotely and an additional 100 to 200 on the waiting list. The professor now teaches in the largest classroom on campus. If his course grew any bigger, he’d need to move into the school’s sports stadium.

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“I would love to think that’s all because I’m a dynamic lecturer,” Callison-Burch told Observer. “But it’s really........

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