Revenge of the English majors: The age of AI is driving new respect for humanities skills

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• Are you feeling lost among the AI slop? You might want to major in English.
• Humanities skills, once undervalued, are now in demand in AI-driven markets.
• Universities are rethinking how they teach liberal arts in the AI age — and students are loving it.

At the University of Colorado Boulder, you can take a course co-taught by an applied mathematician and a Renaissance scholar.

"The students love it," said John-Michael Rivera, the school's dean of arts and humanities...