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Will AI make your degree pointless?

We speak to three students who tell us how they think AI could change their careers.

AI isn鈥檛 just occasionally going rogue鈥�(Open AI and Meta we鈥檙e looking at you) it鈥檚 also changing the world of work. Nearly 70% of college students in the US said they thought AI would make it harder to find a job in a recent survey - and 22% said that they鈥檝e changed what they鈥檙e deciding to study at university because of this. They鈥檙e not the only ones鈥� students all over the world are thinking about how to AI-proof their future careers.

In this episode, we go to the University College London campus to speak to three students: Omer, who鈥檚 studying French and German, Zahra, who鈥檚 studying entrepreneurship, and Allie, who鈥檚 just graduated from Kings College after completing her law studies. They tell us how they think AI could change the course of their careers, how they鈥檙e adapting to the new technology, and if their degrees will still be helpful in the face of AI.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: William Lee Adams, Chelsea Coates and Benita Barden
Video Producer: Baldeep Chahal
Editors: Verity Wilde

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