What’s causing anxiety in America right now? No, it’s not Iran, Trump or Gavin Newsom’s hair. It’s what Andrew Yang calls “The Fuckening”. As a mother of two daughters choosing their courses right now, I’m standing in the middle of it – holding a course catalogue, trying to figure out what my teenage daughters should study in an age of AI.
Anthropic’s latest research says the most AI-exposed jobs are programmers, analysts and customer service reps. The safest? Bartenders and dishwashers. For the first time in modern history, the safest place is not at a desk.
So what do you tell your kids to study? In this episode of Searching for America, I take an AI course at Georgia Tech, revisit Aristotle, remember my father’s hands – and land on an answer that surprised me: in a world of infinite answers, taste and judgment become the scarce resources. We’re not educating our kids for subjects anymore. We’re educating them for judgment.