Dr. Cameron Sublett recently penned a guest blog on EdWeek where he discussed the potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the career outcomes of graduates from Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. In particular, Dr. Sublett argued that CTE programs must equip students with technical and transferrable stills, the latter of which refer to things like communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving and are less easy to automate with available technologies. Dr. Sublett also used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to illustrate that automation risks vary by CTE field of study, which may place some already disadvantaged student groups at disproportionate risk for automation. Overall, Dr. Sublett argued that contemporary CTE has potential to shield students from the cascading impacts of automation but that it boils down to policy implementation.
July 19, 2023
