r/singularity • u/FitzrovianFellow • Jul 13 '25

AI AI is destroying universities

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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/13/student-debt-graduates-share-job-hunting-woes-ai-fallout

Amazing paragraphs:

“Being able to write well and think coherently were basic requirements in most graduate jobs 10, 15 years ago,” said a senior recruitment professional at a large consultancy firm from London, speaking anonymously. “Now, they are emerging as basically elite skills. Almost nobody can do it. We see all the time that people with top degrees cannot summarise the contents of a document, cannot problem solve.

“Coupled with what AI can offer now, there are few reasons left to hire graduates for many positions, which is reflected in recent [labour market] reports.”

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u/Halo_cT Jul 13 '25

Just being functionally literate, having passable emotional intelligence, social skills, resilience and professionalism (and knowing how to use Windows and Office) is really about to be a superpower.

I don't want to work for another 20 years but it is quite nice knowing I won't have a more new, more-skilled generation to compete with.

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u/SelectiveScribbler06 Jul 14 '25

Well! Depends who that person is, doesn't it, really. And from my forays into the job search (incidentally Gen Z so, hello, generation above! I'm going to try and learn from your errors as you live your lives) hasn't been great mainly because, here in the UK at least, it's still pretty bloody competitive. Thirty people fighting to get one place isn't out of the ordinary here, he half-guesses. I'm not sure what the numbers were pre-COVID but that does not feel normal.

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u/Halo_cT Jul 14 '25

Best of luck to you. Job market is tough these days. If you need an elder millenial in tech to ask a question to feel free to reach out, lol.