Editors’ Summary: This post questions the perceived hierarchy of disciplines in the university, and argues that the rise of generative AI challenges this hierarchy. He points to how computer science was considered the most lucrative major in the twenty-first century until the automation of coding made possible by AI. He uses the case study of AI shifting the value of certain disciplines to critique the view of universities as trade schools. This post calls for the removal of a hierarchy of disciplines shaped by what is considered the most useful.
Editors’ Choice: AI Inverts the Disciplinary Hierarchy
