Why AI labs are hiring philosophers: humanities skills gain value in the age of automation
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The Economist
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A brief opinion piece noting the irony that arts and humanities students were once told to "learn to code" to stay employable, but now it's programmers who fear AI taking their jobs — suggesting that philosophers and humanities thinkers are increasingly valued by AI labs for tackling the thorny ethical and conceptual problems AI presents.
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· 3 pulledTEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should 'learn to code'.
That may have been bad advice.
These days, it is programmers who are nervous about AI taking their jobs.
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