Human Capital: What will be the metis of the tekhne of MAMLM? What will be the skill- and experience-sets that allow people to use generative AI and related tools powerfully and effectively in the future? In my view, a good deal of it will be computer science-adjacent. Why? For the same reason that a deep fluency in Old Enochian was essential for a successful demon-summoning wizard. But I think Tim Burke is right that a liberal education—the set of knowledges that orient you to the human world and to how humanity works as an anthology intelligence that the Trivium and the Quadrivium were groping toward a thousand years ago—is still the right way to go:

Tim Burke: ‘I’m reaching for… a future with generative AI where it’s a tool with limited but considerable uses… the enhancement of other intermediaries and tools. The word processor… changed the process of writing in some very notable ways…. We’ve accepted the word processor and embedded the changes in our collective understanding of the work of writing.… If you look at… Midjourney, the people who are consistently getting the most interesting and valuable results… know art history… about visual aesthetics… how generative AI generally works, and… Midjourney as a tool and interface. They also often know where to find digital images and how to process and alter images in other tools…. There are people I see using it who are good at all of those things, and it shows… If we are… training shepherds of AI… that program of study… will… be… effective connection between existing things [we teach]… <timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-th…>