Is a college degree now the worst investment you can make?

Photo above - a future grad begins to question the value of his humanities degree from Faber College . . . .

What is your college degree (or even high school diploma) worth if you used ChatGPT to write your papers, and the professor used AI to grade them? Well, here we are (see link below).

Of course, employers and recruiters are also using AI to screen and reject almost every resume'. According to some reports less than 1% of job applications are ever referred to human for further review. In response, there are now apps to help you defeat the resume' screening process.

Predictably colleges are losing their $hit. When I went with sister and her daughter on a college evaluation road trip a few years ago, the first stop on the campus tour was the indoor rock-climbing wall adjacent to the new cafeteria. I am so NOT making this up. (This was Kent State University. I’m not making THAT up, either.)

This answer is not going to involve better systems to detect AI plagiarized homework and research papers. Or universal basic income for poly sci grads who got fired from their jobs as Starbucks baristas for constantly starting arguments with customers who have the wrong brand of clothing logo visible. The jobs of the future are probably going to be uniformed police officers. Firemen. Ambulance staff. ICE agents – those are the guys ditching their shopping mall guard jobs for a $20,000 pay bump and the chance to carry a real pistol on their belt. You didn’t think those guys were leaving real police positions to chase down people in freezing Minnesota and spend the night in a Springhill Suites $129 a night room at the end of the day, did you?

There was a funny story last week. Someone was hired even though she realized that her credentials were not top-rung. Pleasantly surprised, she asked the manager why. “Because you greeted and spoke to several people in our office by name, after observing their badges. That’s the sort of people skill that makes a difference.”

I’m just sayin’ . . .


https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-college-internships-jobs

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself



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