A friend recently shared with me a link to a video of a show from a graduation day at Harvard University, in which comedian Ronny Chieng deconstructed and slaughtered artificial intelligence, to cheers from the audience. That video, which had more than a million views, reached me as I was looking to write about the diminishing value of education among the youth. For Generation Z, AI is already taking over. But wait, despite AI and the cosmic changes it has made to the labor market, one still needs an education. Right?

The case for an education in the humanities has never been stronger as the lines dividing what humans and AI can do become increasingly blurred.

A friend recently shared with me a link to a video of a show from a graduation day at Harvard University, in which comedian Ronny Chieng deconstructed and slaughtered artificial…