Why Liberal Arts might win the AI Era ft. Pankaj Rai
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The AI advantage might belong to philosophers, not engineers. Pankaj Rai, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Aditya Birla Group, flips a popular narrative on its head. We keep telling people that AI is an engineer’s game. That the future belongs to those who can build the models. But he makes a quieter, more uncomfortable point: The real leverage with LLMs lies in asking better questions. Here’s the shift he’s pointing to: 🔺 Prompting is closer to philosophy than programming 🔺 Language skills are now technical leverage 🔺 Humanities train you to frame reality, not just solve for it 🔺 Artists and thinkers may extract more value from AI than builders This isn’t about diminishing engineering. It’s about expanding who gets power in the AI era. For the first time in a long time, knowin…