03/18/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Humanities majors will likely become even MORE competitive, not less, in the workforce of the future. Tech and other industry leaders are now realizing that ChatGPT, Claude, and other Generative AI tools may replace certain technical tasks, but cannot replace the adaptable "soft skills" you learn and practice in English, History, and Philosophy classes.
According to co-founder of Anthropic Daniela Amodei, "The things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important.... And what I mean by that is when we look to hire people at Anthropic today, we look for people who are great communicators, who have excellent EQ and people skills, who are kind and compassionate and curious and want to help other people.... I actually think studying the humanities is going to be more important than ever.... A lot of these models are actually very good at STEM. But I think this idea that there are things that make us uniquely human—understanding ourselves, understanding history, understanding what makes us tick—I think that will always be really, really important. And I think the ability to have critical thinking skills and learn how to interact with other people will be more important in the future, rather than less." (By the way, Amodei "majored in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz"!) (link in comments)
