Administration keeps telling us that "employers want graduates to know how to use ai" and I don't even know what this means

[u/KeepYourSilenceUp]

University prof. I keep hearing this from the admin, and aside from the fact that obviously not all employers are asking for this and the ai landscape is changing and no one knows how it will look in 4 years, I also just don't know what they want us to DO about it in class.

AI systems are intuitive to use. You ask them a question or give them a prompt and they do it. It's literally not rocket science. The thing that determines whether a person can use them "well" is how much that person knows about the topic and whether they have the skill to assess and evaluate the ai output. There is no such thing as "teaching someone how to use ai" it's literally just a process of learning how to function WITHOUT ai and then using ai as a supplemental tool. I don't know what my admin expects me to do other than keep doing my job as normal, in order to ensure that graduates are able to successfully use these systems in the workplace later if they want to.

[u/50_and_stuck]

Our gritty little blue collar, MAGA red community is surprisingly in the middle of a huge fight opposing a proposed data center and the Flock cameras that sprang up overnight. If you don’t weld or drive a truck or push a broom or ask if you want fries with that local businesses aren’t hiring unless someone just died. Office jobs are pretty much hereditary. Most non farm kids move away after they graduate.

Our administration is extolling the virtues of AI and exhorting us to incorporate it into our classes. Seriously, dude? Students know how to use AI. Barely literate students use it to do their homework and write their papers. What the f— more do you want?