They cherry picked a comment about AI from some random student and put it on top. Meanwhile, the article says that these aren’t cuts as much as they are either curriculum modifications, or simply program cancellations because of lack of demand.
The cuts have been heavily concentrated in arts, humanities, foreign languages and management - fields that are increasingly deemed outdated or oversaturated in China, where more than 16% of young people are unemployed and the job market is being rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence.
According to reports I’ve seen over the years the job market in China has been pretty disastrous for young college graduates for a while now. Contracts from foreign companies have been getting fewer and their domestic market isn‘t growing at a rate to negate this loss in work. China‘s wobbly housing market hasn‘t been doing great for some time either.
But of course AI adoption is blamed now instead like it is everywhere else. As if AI could replace all those jobs in manufacturing and construction.
And of course the arts and culture are being gutted first as they only enrich people‘s lives and you can‘t have that during a crisis apparently. They‘re always the first on the chopping block when old people at the top see performance dwindle. Now instead of having sophisticated, unemployed grads you will have uneducated, unemployed grads.
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What a crappy, rag like headline.
They cherry picked a comment about AI from some random student and put it on top. Meanwhile, the article says that these aren’t cuts as much as they are either curriculum modifications, or simply program cancellations because of lack of demand.
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According to reports I’ve seen over the years the job market in China has been pretty disastrous for young college graduates for a while now. Contracts from foreign companies have been getting fewer and their domestic market isn‘t growing at a rate to negate this loss in work. China‘s wobbly housing market hasn‘t been doing great for some time either.
But of course AI adoption is blamed now instead like it is everywhere else. As if AI could replace all those jobs in manufacturing and construction.
And of course the arts and culture are being gutted first as they only enrich people‘s lives and you can‘t have that during a crisis apparently. They‘re always the first on the chopping block when old people at the top see performance dwindle. Now instead of having sophisticated, unemployed grads you will have uneducated, unemployed grads.
The brilliant long-term planning that China's leadership is famous for.
Oh, wait, they're just being reactive again.