The New York Times 2026-05-17-1
Opinion | What A.I. Kant Do
Stanford CS enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years over the past 18 months, the only hard data point in a Maureen Dowd op-ed otherwise stacked with five tech CEOs simultaneously elevating humanities. The Washington Post Texas study Dowd herself cites, liberal arts at the bottom of post-college payoff, points the opposite direction. Bilingual operators are the scarce profile (judgment plus AI fluency in the same graduate), and almost no credential currently produces them.