Has AI made college degrees irrelevant?

Fortune asked top tech executives if they think AI has made college degrees irrelevant.

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00:00Oh, absolutely not. To think that AI is a shortcut for understanding is absolutely ridiculous.

00:06Not at all. I don't think it has become irrelevant at all.

00:08Actually, I disagree with that. I think a lot of the roles that AI are playing is a kind of an assistant role to your task.

00:13I don't believe that AI has made college degrees irrelevant because they actually show that you have a capacity to learn.

00:18College degrees are not irrelevant. I think anytime you study and you open your mind and you take the time to do that,

00:24I think you're going to learn and expand yourself as a human being.

00:27I do not think AI has made college degrees irrelevant in any way, shape, or form.

00:32I definitely think you should be using AI.

00:33I think university degrees are still quite relevant.

00:36I think of it as still a good place for you to kind of hone on critical thinking and learning how to be an adult.

00:42AI has not made college degrees irrelevant, but the students who don't use AI within colleges are going to drastically fall behind.

00:50I don't think that AI has made college degrees irrelevant.

00:54Ultimately, college degrees are there to help you learn how to learn, and that's not going away.