AI has become increasingly important in recent months and is having a stronger influence on everyday areas. However, especially business leaders and department heads are not very happy about it. Fresh graduates from university are fully relying on artificial intelligence, with all its associated advantages and disadvantages.
For some time now, the advantages and disadvantages of the influence of artificial intelligence on people’s lives and everyday life have been discussed.
In particular, young people are often referred to as “AI Natives,” meaning individuals who grow up with artificial intelligence or actively use it in their daily lives or at university. This is causing great concern for large companies and bosses. Because individuals who focus heavily on the use of AI lack other important skills.
Companies focus on literacy skills that current graduates are lacking
Companies and employers still rely on potential employees to bring reading and writing skills. Educators have long criticized that fewer and fewer young people are capable of reading a single sentence and criticize exactly these lacking skills.
Many employers therefore fear that students who fully concentrate on AI at the expense of other skills are likely poorly prepared for the actual demands of life after graduation. This has been reported, among others, by the magazine Futurism.com.
As a New York financial professional explained to “Financial Times” journalist Gillian Tett, new employees who were considered “AI Natives” are proving to be alarmingly superficial in their ideas (via FT.com, Paywall).
Troy Jollimore, Professor of Ethics at Cal State Chico, already explained in 2025 to New York Magazine:
A huge number of students will leave university with a degree and enter the workforce, although they are essentially illiterate.
The result of this is that employers are increasingly looking for graduates from the humanities, rather than so-called STEM graduates, where the focus is expected to be even more on AI. This has been reported, for example, by the magazine The Economist (Paywall). It is expected that philosophy graduates will have higher reading and writing skills.
STEM stands for the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, and Engineering in the German-speaking area.
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