91% of graduates us ai

About this episode

The episode discusses the prevalence of AI usage among Yale graduates and its implications for education and the job market.

Today's article is from the Yale Daily News. Their senior survey for the class of 2026 came back with 91 percent of seniors saying they've used AI for schoolwork. That isn't a usage stat anymore. That's saturation. While the Pope writes encyclicals and New York City schools draft policies, the most expensive undergraduate degree in the country just finished four years that the curriculum committee didn't authorize. The class graduating this month is the first where AI use is the default, not the exception. Every Fortune 500 recruiter interviewing them is interviewing an AI-augmented worker whether the resume says so or not. The talent market just got repriced silently. The kids set the price. Nine percent of Yale seniors didn't touch AI for coursework. Some are students of conviction. Some are in tightly-monitored programs. Some used it and lied on the survey. Whichever it is, academic integrity policy stopped scaling years ago. The honor code is being asked to do a job it wasn't built for. Yale spent three years debating whether AI belongs in the syllabus. The students answered the question before the faculty meeting ended. The grade distribution at Yale just spiked toward the…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Saddington

Topics covered

• AI in education
• graduate statistics
• academic integrity
• job market changes
• curriculum debates
• impact of technology on learning

Keywords

• AI
• Yale
• education
• graduate
• job market
• academic integrity
• curriculum
• Fortune 500
• saturation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale Daily News, Fortune 500

Places: Yale, New York City

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