This piece by the founder of Powder, Barthelemy Kiss, in Business Insider (archived) is a good one that echoes something I wrote about over two years ago now, that AI needs to make room as an industry for people who are not engineers and PhDs etc by training.
Working on this startup, I’ve learned that people with a liberal arts background have a major edge in our industry. The liberal arts grads we’ve hired have a creative, human-centric approach to understanding the best applications of AI in their respective fields.
They have a hunger for constant education and a desire for self-improvement, which is essential in this space. At a core level, liberal arts disciplines hone critical thinking. We need critical thinkers to challenge the results of AI. Models can hallucinate, so you need to be able to cross-reference data. […]
While AI engineers are absolutely key, it’s only through alliances between talent from liberal arts backgrounds, who can think creatively about building applications around this tech stack, that the technology will reach its full potential.
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