"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead. “We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.
As a college educator, this terrifies me, it's not what I want for my students... but at least this story gives me an avenue to push back on them.
