TEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace(加速，加快步伐), arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code(学会编程)”. That may have been bad advice. These days, it is programmers who are nervous about(对……感到紧张) AI taking their jobs.
十年前，当AI革命加速推进时，人文学科的学生被告知，如果想让自己更具就业竞争力，就应该“学会编程”。这或许是个糟糕的建议。如今，反而是程序员们担心AI会抢走他们的工作。
They might consider learning to philosophise(进行哲学思考). Earlier this year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published figures showing that American philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers(同龄人，同辈) who studied computer science. In 2024, the most recent year for which numbers are available, 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed(失业的), against just(而只有（对比）) 5.1% of philosophers.
他们或许可以考虑学习哲学。今年早些时候，纽约联邦储备银行发布的数据显示，美国哲学专业毕业生比计算机科学专业的同龄人更有可能找到工作。在可获得数据的最近年份2024年，计算机科学专业的失业率为7%，而哲学专业仅为5.1%。
Many are being snapped up(被抢购，被争相聘用) by AI firms themselves. Students get job offers before they have graduated, says Luciano Floridi, a philosopher at Yale University. Academics are moving, too. Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging(大出血（比喻人才大量流失）)”.
许多人被AI公司争相聘用。耶鲁大学哲学家卢西亚诺·弗洛里迪表示，学生们尚未毕业就收到了工作邀请。学者们也在转行。弗洛里迪博士将哲学系人才流失的规模描述为“大出血”。