"How Students Can AI-Proof Their Careers: Go wide and avoid hyper-specialization"

Focusing too heavily on one type of expertise could be a mistake if, as expected, AI eliminates lots of jobs in some specialties. It isn’t a risk only for technology fields like computer science; other fields such as accounting and finance are also being transformed by AI. Instead, experts recommend having a portfolio of skills. 

“If you have one skill, you compete with the masses that have that same one skill,” says Anna Esaki-Smith, author of “Make College Your Superpower.” In contrast, she says, “Should you stack on another skill, you become qualified for a wider range of opportunities.” That could mean adding a minor or two to a major or going for a double major.

 The Wall Street Journal, November, 20, 2024

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