English Majors are Career Ready
- “Anthropic billionaire cofounder Jack Clark studied literature, not code, and says liberal arts degrees will win in the AI age” in Fortune magazine, by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez. Read more here.
- “Besides, literature isn’t just fancy language and tall tales. It’s a library of verities given unignorable and unforgettable form. It’s Pilates for emotional intelligence. Think about how often, in discussions of political figures, Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies, noblemen and fools serve as reference points and Rosetta stones. Or how frequently, over recent decades, George Orwell’s '1984' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World' come up. So many of the warnings we should heed — and so much of the wisdom we need — are in those pages and those plays. How does anyone major in anything other than English?” --
- “For a Bonkers New World, a ‘Brave New World’” in The New York Times, by Frank Bruni. Read more here.
- "After decades of dismissing liberal arts and humanities studies as useless and insisting that the mastery of science, engineering, math and tech is essential to future success, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable asset in the coming A.I. revolution."
- “What A.I. Kant Do” in The New York Times, by Maureen Dowd. Read more here.
