Friend Not Foe

College students have always had a ready answer to the question: “What are you doing after graduation?” At Stanford, whose mission statement promises “academic excellence across the broadest array of disciplines,” those responses have remained as varied as ever. Lately, though, they’ve come with a qualifier:“…if it’s not replaced by AI.”

For Annie Lee ’27, Suze van Adrichem ’27 and Tony Wang ’27, the co-presidents of Stanford’s Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) club, AI is not an existential threat; rather...