Recorded live at the Adobe EduMAX Conference, Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn speak with a panel featuring Jennifer Sparrow, New York University’s chief academic technology officer; Simon Koh, former early-career recruiting leader at Raymond James and KPMG; and Allison Salisbury, founder and CEO of Humanist Venture Studio. The conversation centers on how AI is reshaping early-career jobs and what colleges can do to help students align their skills with a rapidly evolving workforce.
Salisbury argues that “the project of higher education” is to “cultivate that human agency among learners so that they graduate with this self-belief and self-confidence that they can build things in collaboration both with other humans, but also with nonhuman intelligence.”
Likewise, Sparrow describes the “AI-ready graduate” as a “learner who’s been given the opportunity to really practice and sharpen their skills in what is probably more classically called a liberal arts education: critical thinking, creative problem solving, cross-cultural communication…technological adaptability and curiosity.”