College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition. Palantir CEO Alex Karp said late last year it doesn’t really matter where his employees went to college, and Apple CEO Tim Cook has said a four-year degree isn’t even required to work at the company.
The rise of AI has only added to doubts of a degree’s value. But some economists say college still holds some implicit value, like teaching students things AI could never learn how to do.
