'Humanities PhDs will get more valuable' takes heat: critics call it disciplinary self-flattery, not analysis
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-23
Jozef Andrew K predicts humanities and social science PhDs will become increasingly valuable in the AI era: primary-source interviews, deep archival research, critical original thought, and elite networks can't be automated, while most STEM functions can.
@onionesque pushes back: the take is popular precisely because it flatters a discipline's self-image, and ironically demonstrates the opposite of the critical thinking the humanities claim to teach.
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