No, the graduates: Amnesty International did not end your career before you start

I say … no. In fact, my mission today is to tell you that your education was no in vain. You have a great future in front of you, regardless of the intelligence of Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini and Llama. Here is the reason: you have something that the computer cannot have. It is a great power, and each of you has an abundance.

Your humanity.

Liberal arts graduates, I have specialized in topics such as psychology. date. anthropologist. American, Asian and sexual studies. sociology. Languages. philosophy. Political science. religion. Criminal justice. Economy. There are even some English specializations, like me.

Each of these topics involve the examination and interpretation of human behavior and human creativity with sympathy that human beings can only achieve the task. The notes that you make in the social sciences, the analyzes you produce on art and culture, and the lessons that continue from your research, and have invaluable originality, based on a simple fact that you devote your attention, intelligence and awareness to your rational colleague. People, for this reason we call them humanities.

Amnesty International princes spend hundreds of billions of dollars to make their models think like prominent people. I just spent four years at the University of Temple Learning to think as human beings. The difference is not measured.

This is something that Silicon Valley understands, starting with the time when Steve Jobs told me four decades ago that he wanted to marry computers and liberal arts. I once wrote a history of Google. Originally, its founder, Larry Big, resisted the employment of anyone who had no computer degree. But the company realized that it loses the talents it needs for communications, work strategy, management, marketing and internal culture. Some of these graduates have become a liberal art that were hired among the most valuable employees in the company.

Even within artificial intelligence companies. Liberal artists can flourish. Did you know that the head of the anthropologist, one of the best creators in artificial intelligence, was English specialization? It is connected to Joan Didion.

Moreover, your work does something that artificial intelligence can never do: it makes a true human relationship. Openai recently boasted that he trained one of its latest models to produce creative writing. You may have great phrases – but this is not what we are really looking for from books, visual arts, movies and criticism. How will you feel if you read a novel that turned the way you saw the world, and I heard a podcast that raises your soul, watched a movie that blew your mind, and I heard a piece of music that moved your soul, and only after you were inspired and converted, I learned that it was not created by a person, but a robot? You may feel cheating.

This is more than a feeling. In 2023, some researchers She published a paper Full confirmation. In blind experiences, humans appreciate what they read more when they believed that he was a human colleague and not a sophisticated system that displays humanity. In another BlindThe participants were presented to the abstract art created by both people and AI. Although they were unable to know anything, when people were asked about the pictures they loved better, the pictures created by man appeared. Other research studies included magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. the Surveying also showed People responded more positively when they thought humans, not artificial intelligence, invented artwork. Almost as if this connection was primitive.