What to study if AI scares you

‘Fast forward frugal swadeshi enabled AI-powered super computing technology’

A seventeen-year-old asked me recently whether there was any point in choosing a course at all. Whatever she studied, she said, would be obsolete before she finished it. Her parents were in the room, and they were nodding.

The fear is genuine, and it is not stupid. It is also built on a misreading of what the technology in question actually does.