Which universities best prepare students for the rise of AI?

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UChicago

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I think colleges that stress thinking, research, dialogue, arguments, and the free flow of ideas are good. Plus, the ones that are aggressive about fighting AI. Blue Books are back at a lot of good schools. You will need to demonstrate your thinking on the spot - just like in the olden days.

Alas, it's a quiet tragedy that so many of this generation never learned to write neatly in cursive. But the Blue Books demand you write neatly. I think there's a big space for handwriting tutors in the AI age.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of colleges that are basically factories - both big public and small private. A student is on a conveyor belt, and if they choose to AI everything for their business administration or communications degrees, they will be able to float through without learning a damn thing.

The good schools are fighting that though. Which means you'll see even further differentiation between the "good" schools and everywhere else. AI is a big problem when it comes to learning. The better schools will deal with that head on - thus, the blue books at midterms and finals. The factory schools will let it slide.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges!

AI cannot replace liberal arts education.

LAC graduates will come out of AI era far better than anyone else.

I completely agree. Now more than ever we need readers, critical thinkers, creatives.

Engineers and other STEM graduates can't read, can't think critically, can't be creative? Their 120 credit hours of coursework, which includes a bunch of Gen Ed classes, all went for nuts? The secret sauce is in all those senior-level English Literature and other liberal arts classes?

[Anonymous]

check out what Vanderbilt is doing to prepare its liberal arts kids for the centricity of AI in all aspects of the future. Good stuff. They are leaning into AI not away from it which is probably necessary for all the liberal arts students.

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Not a school answer, but our grad expects many companies will soon implement additional, exhaustive testing after they first round of interviews. The AI kids will fall to the wayside quickly.

If you are paying a princely sum for your child’s education and they are choosing to use AI to cheat, they might just be cheating themself out of future employment.

Perhaps a later round of testing will also reveal that a candidate knows how to use AI effectively. The cheaters just won’t be in the group that gets to that round.

Kids need strong critical thinking, raw smarts and AI skills. Trifecta. The OP asks an excellent question.

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My kid’s Ivy has a lot of money, research and programming around AI. He’s adding courses as electives. Not hpy

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CMU. Cornell. Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges!

AI cannot replace liberal arts education.

LAC graduates will come out of AI era far better than anyone else.

This. Learn how to do it yourself first.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges!

AI cannot replace liberal arts education.

LAC graduates will come out of AI era far better than anyone else.

I completely agree. Now more than ever we need readers, critical thinkers, creatives.

Engineers and other STEM graduates can't read, can't think critically, can't be creative? Their 120 credit hours of coursework, which includes a bunch of Gen Ed classes, all went for nuts? The secret sauce is in all those senior-level English Literature and other liberal arts classes?

You know, it's ok that you weren't good at math or science.

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Pick you top 5 Engineering schools. Guess what, they are also top 5-7 in AI study and research. Go figure. Why ask questions that are so easily obtained from a Google search.

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Anonymous wrote:The ones who completely ignore that it exists.

We get pressured at work or boast about how we use AI. But the results I've seen need to be heavily fine tuned, to the point where it would have been just as easy to have skipped the AI altogether. It's great when you don't care about the output.

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Ones that incorporate opportunities for real experience to build your resume while in school. "Entry level" jobs and even internships want you to have experience first. AI will most impact entry level work.

These can be coop schools but non-coops can do it too. DS got this at Virginia Tech

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Plumbing apprenticeships.

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Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges!

AI cannot replace liberal arts education.

LAC graduates will come out of AI era far better than anyone else.

Agree about liberal arts programs being the best preparation for AI. It need not be at LAC. It can be a humanities degree at a university.

To answer OP, it’s not AI programs that will “prepare” you, you’re looking for the antidote - coursework that give you a deep base of knowledge, help you think critically, research, write constructively.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts colleges!

AI cannot replace liberal arts education.

LAC graduates will come out of AI era far better than anyone else.

Agree about liberal arts programs being the best preparation for AI. It need not be at LAC. It can be a humanities degree at a university.

To answer OP, it’s not AI programs that will “prepare” you, you’re looking for the antidote - coursework that give you a deep base of knowledge, help you think critically, research, write constructively.

The best way to learn to is to build strong base knowledge and do a practical projects using AI or building AI related tools either in Professor s lab or a company in the summers, starting from sophomore year.