Dear Dr. Boli: Right now I’m in college, but I’m worrying that by the time I get out, there won’t be any jobs left except in the garbage-collection industry, because everything else will be done by AI. So should I quit school now and take a job with the Department of Environmental Services? —Sincerely, A Sophomore at Duquesne.

Dear Sir or Madam: Even as late as a few months ago, Dr. Boli might have given you an affirmative answer. But he has been observing the progress of artificial intelligence in the workplace. More and more he sees lazy employees resorting to AI to try to get some assignment done with minimal effort. And then what happens? Someone else at the same company receives the assignment and says, “Oh—this was obviously done by AI. I’d better go over it with a fine-toothed comb.” More human employee-hours are spent dealing with the results of resorting to artificial intelligence than were formerly spent simply doing the jobs that have been turned over to AI. It turns out that, at almost every company, AI is the problem employee, the one in ten who takes up 90% of the management resources in dealing with his or her feckless incompetence. Go ahead and finish your degree. All over the world, positions are opening up for people who know how to deal with the messes AI is making every day.