Previously, it was “C is for getting a degree.” Now “ChatGPT gets the degree.”
Soon-to-be college graduates benefited from the introduction of ChatGPT in their first year. Many of us spent the better part of four years of our school years cheating (or optimizing, depending on who you ask).
Their entry into the workforce raises big questions. Did the use of AI to help them graduate from college make them prime job candidates or hinder them from meaningful growth?
BI’s Amanda Huber analyzes whether this over-reliance on this new generation of AI is a feature or a bug.
Balancing the use of AI without sacrificing valuable experience is a top concern for executives managing junior employees.
Veteran workers can take advantage of AI while leveraging their years of work experience. New entrants may be AI natives, but automating all their work can create significant blind spots.
College graduates may also lose access to the AI tools they have traditionally relied on.
why? costs and calculations.
Anthropic caused an uproar when it appeared to increase the price of its Claude Code tools. The AI giant eventually announced that this was just an “experiment” targeting 2% of new signups, but not until Sam Altman and other OpenAI staff did some experiments.
(Anthropic also acknowledged that Claude Code had deteriorated, but denied that it had been “weakened.”)
It probably won’t be the last AI company to test new pricing models. If your user base is hooked on the efficiencies your technology brings, and your bills are going up, why not raise your prices?
It’s not just about making more money. The proliferation of AI agents is pushing some AI companies to the limits of their computing power.
Still, that constraint can create an unexpected benefit: a reason to step back from the technology.
Sumeet Chhabria, a longtime Wall Street technology executive who now runs the advisory firm ThoughtLinks, recently told me some of the best feedback he’s gotten from clients. I didn’t Use AI.
Stuck on a plane without Wi-Fi, Chhabria wrote a simple memo summarizing a dense cybersecurity topic in plain English without the aid of AI. He outlined 10 actionable items. The client loved it.
Cabria is not anti-AI. This is just one example of how human critical thinking trumps the raw power of AI. Of course, Mr. Chabria has decades of experience in this field, which helped him connect the dots.
New graduates don’t have that advantage. Maybe ChatGPT has some ideas?