The headline here is that "a year after 250 CEOs demanded mandatory AI education, industry leaders are zeroing in on the durable 'human' skills they can't hire for." That sounds good, but as always, I would warn against depending on industry leaders to define what should be taught. For one thing, it's often wrong. But more importantly, their advice is intended to benefit them, not the students. Consider this: "what we need is to figure out how to teach the human skills – how to teach future-proof skills that set an employee up for success no matter what domain they find themselves in." Why would this be important. Well, it could be because technology is changing so rapidly. But from where I sit, it's just as likely that employers want to hire human cogs they can quickly 'retrain' and slot into positions the employees never expected to be doing when they were hired - a lot like the way Facebook transferred software engineers into data-labeling peons.
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