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LinkedIn Grad’s Guide 2026: Starting your career in the AI era<\/strong><\/a> — from linkedin.com by Gianna Prudente
\nTo help you head off in the right direction, we’ve identified where those starting their careers are finding opportunity, based on data from millions of LinkedIn member profiles.<\/em><\/p>\n

While all of this is happening, colleges are still catching up. Many students are graduating without having spent much time learning how AI actually fits into day-to-day work \u2014 even as employers seek out those exact skills.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Colleges are moving into an era of, we’ll let the faculty decide, which leads to a very uneven experience for students because some faculty are really into AI and other faculty are not,” says Jeff Selingo, a higher education strategist. “Employers are the same; they don’t really know how to act around early careers.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Taken together, new grads are entering a uniquely challenging environment: fewer traditional entry points, slower turnover and a workplace that’s evolving faster than the systems preparing people for it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment<\/strong> <\/a>— from theguardian.com by Micah Nathan
\nThe problem wasn\u2019t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It\u2019s what\u2019s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words<\/em><\/p>\n

For a few moments, all was quiet except the classroom\u2019s ticking radiators. Then, a teary-eyed confession: one of the ostensible authors said she only used AI because she was scared of looking stupid, of being criticized for bad writing. She said she loved writing stories and hated having used AI. But she couldn\u2019t stop herself, recounting a sequence similar to an addict\u2019s descent: at first she fed her story into AI for a grammar check, it suggested line edits and she accepted, then it asked if she wanted structural edits, then it offered to rewrite the entire piece.<\/p>\n

The other would-be author admitted he had never written a short story before and he had an idea but didn\u2019t know where to start. I asked him why he didn\u2019t reach out to me for help. He shrugged.<\/p>\n

One of the other students raised her hand, saying she didn\u2019t understand why it was bad for AI to write stories as long as the stories are based on their ideas. More students spoke: one wanted to know how using AI was any different from using a human editor. Another wanted me to answer why, at a university that launched one of the world\u2019s first AI research programs in 1959, were we even having this debate? Isn\u2019t AI meant to make everyone\u2019s life easier? Less stressful? Isn\u2019t the point of AI to free humans from the tedium of rote tasks?<\/p>\n

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The conversation that followed their confessions was one of the most productive teaching moments of my eight years at MIT. Writing, I told them, isn\u2019t supposed to be easy, and of course it can be tedious but that doesn\u2019t make it rote. Writing isn\u2019t just the production of sentences \u2013 it\u2019s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It\u2019s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This $10K AI School Promises to Future-Proof Your Career<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from builtin.com by Matthew Urwin
\nKhan Academy, TED and ETS are starting a new program to equip students and professionals with the skills to thrive in an increasingly AI-driven economy. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/em><\/p>\n

Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>The Khan TED Institute is a higher-education program that will teach students and workers how to use AI through interactive learning. The program\u2019s AI-centric curriculum is an unproven approach, though, casting doubt on whether it will actually improve learning outcomes and career prospects.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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