In a July 15, 2026 article, Scott Galloway named storytelling, relationships and handling rejection as the 3 skills kids need most in the AI era. Statistics Canada estimates that as many as 60% of Canadians work in occupations at high or moderate risk of significant AI-driven disruption, while the Future Skills Centre found that 44% of Canadian workers were worried their jobs would become automated through AI. In May, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told 5,800 graduates at Carnegie Mellon University that “a new industry is being born” and “a new era of science and discovery is beginning.” However, an anonymous financier said in a recent Financial Times interview that “AI native” new hires are producing surprisingly shallow work, leading his firm to actively recruit humanities graduates over those who lean heavily on AI tools.