> ... Enough doom and gloom. Here's your action plan:
Putting my deconstructionist hat on, this is entirely self-contradicting. For all we know, in a decade, the most important skill might be the ability to clearly mentally imagine "the change you wish to see in the world", and your neural implant will do the rest. If anything, their premises could lead to a strong argument that the best course of action is a well-rounded Liberal Arts degree.
This.
The obvious answer in an AI world is that the domain expert becomes the valuable employee. If you don't know enough to direct these models with the intelligence, wisdom, and judgement that only being a domain expert can confer, you're not going to get the results out that you need to actually get anything useful done.
So no, they won't need techies, but PhD level biologists are safe. In fact, PhD level biologists leveraging the advanced AIs to come in the future are likely to be exponentially more valuable than entire bio startups are today. So if you're young today, don't be foolish. Don't go to college and get some CS degree with an eye towards getting a job in tech. That's very likely not going to work out for you long term.
I think that's the issue with college. It's become a sort of administrative/application oriented thing rather than focusing on knowledge.
If you can get such an education out of your AI, good for you, but most will benefit from a designed program of instruction.
