Students polled by CNBC report they're reconsidering their majors because of AI. They're worried about job security. They're scared the robots will take their paychecks before they ever get one.
This would be touching if it weren't so f*cking stupid.
These kids are eighteen years old. They're changing their entire life trajectory based on technology that can't reliably tell you how many r's are in strawberry. They're abandoning dreams because ChatGPT wrote a mediocre poem and some venture capitalist said it would replace everyone by Thursday.
Here's what actually happens. They switch from English to Computer Science. They graduate in 2028. AI has moved on to something else. The job market wants skills that didn't exist when they were freshmen. They're back where they started except now they hate coding and they never read Faulkner.
The survey doesn't say which industries students are fleeing. Probably the ones that require thought. Probably the ones that pay well. They're running toward whatever feels AI-proof, which is a term that means nothing but sounds responsible when you're justifying your choices to parents who are paying forty grand a year for you to have an identity crisis.
CNBC published this like it's news. Like students panicking about the future is some fresh development and not the baseline condition of being twenty years old and completely f*cked no matter what you major in.
The kids will be fine. They'll graduate into whatever hellscape 2029 brings. They'll take jobs that don't exist yet or they won't. They'll blame AI or capitalism or Mercury in retrograde.
But at least they'll have spent four years stressing about employment instead of enjoying the last moment in their lives when someone else paid their rent.
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